Product Designer

About Basis

Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy. Our agents operate for hours at a time, performing end-to-end work for some of the largest accounting firms in the world.

We recently raised $100M at >$1B valuation and are racing to deploy the most advanced applied ML at production scale.

Our investors include: Khosla Ventures (Keith Rabois & Vinod Khosla), Accel (Miles Clements), Google Ventures, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Adam D'Angelo, Jeff Dean, Jack Altman, Noam Brown, Kyle Vogt, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue and many other operators/technical leaders.

_"Basis is on the frontier of building production-grade, long-horizon agents. They've pushed the limits of what we thought our models could do on real-world, economically valuable, complex accounting tasks. They've been a great collaborator in helping us shape what the future of agents looks like." — Prashant Mital, Applied AI Lead, OpenAI_

About the role

Modern AI lets software _reason_ in real time. That overturns decades of UX assumptions. A chatbot bolted onto old workflows won’t cut it; we need interfaces where humans and agents co-create work, hand tasks back and forth, and build trust in real time.

You will lead Basis into that design unknown: design both the screens accountants see _and_ the invisible UI “toolbox” agents draw from when they assemble those screens.

Imagine Basis 18 months out, then ship toward it one prototype at a time.

Location : NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.

What you'll do

Build

• Design and redesign user-agent interactions across multiple surfaces, from first sketch to polished release

• Invent agent-ready UI primitives that agents can assemble, edit, and explain in real time

• Partner closely with product design on working agents seamlessly into new and existing products

Understand our many accounting users

• Building really good systems here start from deep user empathy. You will spend a portion of your time actually doing accounting work in Basis and becoming a user

Be a visionary

• Pair with founders to sketch Basis 2027, then distill it into quarterly bets

Learn at warp speed

• Immerse in what makes accounting awesome, emergent abilities of LLMs, and various UX for generally-intelligent software, then turn that insight into product decisions

What we're looking for

• Experience: 4–8 years designing complex SaaS or AI tooling, with at least one 0→1 launch (extraordinary talent with fewer years considered).

• First-principles reasoner: You break problems to fundamentals and rebuild without legacy bias.

• Agent-native builder: You already prototype with LLMs and can explain why they change UX.

• Use AI a lot : You should be using AI for your own work a ton. To learn, brainstorm, write, research etc.

• In-person NYC: You want the energy of five days a week on whiteboards with engineers, accountants, and founders.

• Learning velocity: New domains (hello, accounting!) and new tech click for you in weeks, not months.

• Whiteboard-to-Figma range: Comfortable sketching flows live with engineers, then polishing interactions on your own.

• Autonomy & ownership: Happy to make decisions without a committee and own a problem space end-to-end.

• All-in mindset: High-intensity culture, high-upside equity, and a wide-open canvas sound perfect.

Bonus points

• Accounting : Practical knowledge of accounting principles.

• Product ownership : Experience owning a product end-to-end

Benefits at Basis

We offer a competitive and thoughtful benefits package designed to support your physical, mental, and financial well-being:

• Health & Wellness: Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage; Life Insurance; and 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health.

• Basis will cover 100% of your Wellhub Gold membership.

• Wellhub gives you access to gyms like Lifetime, SoulCycle, NYSC and so many more - as well as access to wellness apps like Strava & Headspace!
• Time off: Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays.

• In-Office Perks: Daily meal stipends, a fully stocked kitchen, and $300 toward your custom desk setup.

• Financial Benefits: Pre-tax commuter benefits and 401(k) retirement plan

• Team Culture: Monthly office activities and frequent optional team happy hours.

• Parental Leave