Product Designer

About Basis
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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**
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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**
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**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
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* **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**
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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](https://wellhub.com/en-us/employees/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwy5rUBhB5EiwAIoAtCixehqvud1v9ahoeOFqYnuIiBWAVW73IQK_ysAVP8wl75ukUUW-myBoCDlcQAvD_BwE&utm_campaign=us_b2c_google-search-brand-plans-pricing-wellhub__el_con_ongoing_all_signup_0425&utm_content=181565584554&utm_id=22473088932&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_term=wellhub+gold+plan_801285082537) 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**