Product Designer

basis-ai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Unlimited PTO

In-Office Perks

401(k) retirement plan

Team activities

Parental leave

Job summary

Basis is building production-grade agents for accounting workflows in New York City. You will lead the design of interfaces that let humans and agents co-create work, and you will craft the UI toolbox agents draw from when assembling screens.

This is a hands-on, high-velocity design role in a fast-moving startup. Expect to prototype with LLMs, collaborate with engineers and accountants, and ship in a way that reshapes UX for intelligent software.

Qualifications

• Design complex SaaS or AI tooling with strong UX
• Prototype with LLMs and explain UX implications
• Break problems to fundamentals and rebuild without legacy bias
• Collaborate closely with product design on agents in products

Responsibilities

• Design and redesign user-agent interactions across surfaces from sketch to polished release
• Invent agent-ready UI primitives that agents can assemble, edit and explain
• Partner with product design to integrate working agents into products
• Spend time using Basis to understand accounting workflows to inform design
• Sketch Basis 2027 with founders and distill into quarterly bets

Skills

UI design for AI tooling

LLM prototyping

First-principles thinking

In-person collaboration

Tools

Figma

Prototyping

Job description

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