Product Designer - New Vertical

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 release at a time.
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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

• 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.

What You'll Bring

• 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.

What We’d Love To See

• Accounting: Practical knowledge of accounting principles.
• Product ownership: Experience owning a product end-to-end

What Success looks like in this role

• 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.

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.
• 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