Product Designer — AI Agent UI & Real-Time UX

getbasis.ai; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Wellhub membership

Unlimited PTO

In-office meal stipends

Fully stocked kitchen

401(k) plan

Job summary

Basis is seeking a design leader to shape how humans and AI agents co-create work in real time. You will design accountant-facing screens and the invisible UI toolbox agents use to assemble those screens, building toward Basis 2027 with iterative prototypes.

You’ll work in NYC in-person with engineers, accountants, and founders, translating ambitious product vision into practical, shipped interfaces and experiences.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years designing complex SaaS or AI tooling with at least one 0→1 launch.
• Ability to reason from fundamentals and rebuild without legacy bias.
• Prototype with LLMs and justify UX changes caused by AI.
• Frequent use of AI for learning, brainstorming, writing, and researching.
• Willingness to be in-person in NYC with engineers and founders.
• Rapid learning in new domains like accounting and emerging tech.
• Sketch flows live with engineers and polish interactions independently.
• Autonomy, ownership, and high-growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and redesign user-agent interactions across surfaces from sketch to release.
• Invent agent-ready UI primitives that agents assemble and explain in real time.
• Partner with product design to embed working agents into new and existing products.
• Spend time understanding accounting users by experiencing Basis in practice.
• Collaborate with founders to sketch Basis 2027 and translate into quarterly bets.

Skills

SaaS design

AI tooling

LLM prototyping

First-principles thinking

In-person NYC

Ambition & ownership

User empathy

Whiteboard to Figma

Job description

Basis is seeking a design leader to shape how humans and AI agents co-create work in real time. You will design accountant-facing screens and the invisible UI toolbox agents use to assemble those screens, building toward Basis 2027 with iterative prototypes.

You’ll work in NYC in-person with engineers, accountants, and founders, translating ambitious product vision into practical, shipped interfaces and experiences.