Product Designer
Basis, an AI startup building long-horizon agents for large accounting firms, is hiring a Product Designer in NYC (Flatiron, in-person) to design human-agent interaction surfaces and the UI primitives agents assemble in real time. Requires 4-8 years designing complex SaaS or AI tooling, hands-on LLM prototyping, and whiteboard-to-Figma range.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- New York, US
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 4-8 years designing complex SaaS or AI tooling, with at least one 0→1 launch
- First-principles reasoner: breaks problems to fundamentals without legacy bias
- Already prototypes with LLMs and can explain why they change UX
- Uses AI heavily for own work (learning, brainstorming, writing, research)
- In-person in NYC five days a week
- Learning velocity: new domains and tech click in weeks, not months
- Whiteboard-to-Figma range: sketch flows live with engineers, then polish interactions
- Autonomy and ownership: decides without a committee, owns a problem space end-to-end
- All-in mindset: high-intensity culture, high-upside equity
Nice to have
- Practical knowledge of accounting principles
- Experience owning a product end-to-end
Full 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
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Design and redesign user-agent interactions across multiple surfaces, from first sketch to polished release
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Invent agent-ready UI primitives that agents can assemble, edit, and explain in real time
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Partner closely with product design on working agents seamlessly into new and existing products
Understand our many accounting users