Basis
Product Designer - New Vertical
6mo ago
100000 –250000 USD / yearUSAui designinteraction designprototypinguser research
Lead design of human-agent interfaces and toolboxes to transform accounting workflows with applied ML.
Responsibilities
- 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 release at a time.
- 📍 Location : NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.
- 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
- Be a visionary: Pair with founders to sketch Basis 2027, then distill it into quarterly bets
- 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
- 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
- Learning velocity: New domains (hello, accounting!) and new tech click for you in weeks, not months.
- In-person NYC: You want the energy of five days a week directly collaborating with engineers, accountants, and founders.
- Autonomy & ownership: Excited to make decisions without a committee and own a problem space end-to-end.
Conditions
- 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.
- 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
Other
- 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'v
- 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.
- Research-to-Figma range: Comfortable running user research sessions, planning new features with PMs & engineers, sketching flows live, exploring diverse design solutions, and iterating on released products.
- All-in mindset: High-intensity culture, high-upside equity, and a wide-open canvas sound perfect.
- Accounting : Practical knowledge of accounting principles.
- Product ownership : Experience owning a product end-to-end