What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at Basis?
About Basis
Basis equips accountants with a team of AI agents to take on real workflows.
We have hit product-market fit, have more demand than we can meet, and just raised $34m to scale at a speed that meets this moment.
Built in New York City. Read more about Basis here.
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
Basis equips accountants with a team of AI agents to take on real workflows.
We have hit product-market fit, have more demand than we can meet, and just raised $34m to scale at a speed that meets this moment.
Built in New York City. Read more about Basis here.
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
- 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
- Pair with founders to sketch Basis 2027, then distill it into quarterly bets
- Immerse in what makes accounting awesome, emergent abilities of LLMs, and various UX for generally-intelligent software, then turn that insight into product decisions
- 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.
- Accounting: Practical knowledge of accounting principles.
- Product ownership: Experience owning a product end-to-end