Basis · 1 week ago
Product Designer - New Vertical
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expBasis is a company that equips accountants with AI agents to enhance real workflows. They are seeking a Product Designer to lead the design of user-agent interactions and develop innovative UI solutions for their products.
AccountingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Information Technology
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
4–8 years designing complex SaaS or AI tooling, with at least one 0→1 launch (extraordinary talent with fewer years considered)
You break problems to fundamentals and rebuild without legacy bias
You already prototype with LLMs and can explain why they change UX
You should be using AI for your own work a ton. To learn, brainstorm, write, research etc
Comfortable running user research sessions, planning new features with PMs & engineers, sketching flows live, exploring diverse design solutions, and iterating on released products
High-intensity culture, high-upside equity, and a wide-open canvas sound perfect
Preferred
Practical knowledge of accounting principles
Experience owning a product end-to-end
Benefits
Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
Life Insurance
6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health
Unlimited PTO
12 paid company holidays
Daily meal stipends
A fully stocked kitchen
$300 toward your custom desk setup
Pre-tax commuter benefits
401(k) retirement plan
Monthly office activities
Frequent optional team happy hours
Company
Basis
Basis provides AI agents that automate accounting workflows for professionals.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (2)
2022 (5)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$37.6MKey Investors
Khosla VenturesBetter Tomorrow Ventures
2024-12-17Series A· $34M
2023-10-18Seed· $3.6M
2023-03-20Pre Seed
Leadership Team
Matt Harpe
Co-Founder
Mitchell Troyanovsky
Co-Founder
Recent News
2025-08-15
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