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title: 'Product Designer at Basis AI'
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# Product Designer at Basis AI

- **Company:** Basis AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basis-ai/669a214f-1850-4302-8a65-5d0319b2adba

## 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](https://wellhub.com/en-us/employees/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwy5rUBhB5EiwAIoAtCixehqvud1v9ahoeOFqYnuIiBWAVW73IQK_ysAVP8wl75ukUUW-myBoCDlcQAvD_BwE&utm_campaign=us_b2c_google-search-brand-plans-pricing-wellhub__el_con_ongoing_all_signup_0425&utm_content=181565584554&utm_id=22473088932&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_term=wellhub+gold+plan_801285082537) 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

## About Basis AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Basis AI builds autonomous AI agents that execute end-to-end accounting workflows for professional accounting firms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Mitchell Troyanovsky (Co-Founder), Matt Harpe (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Accounting Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B — Top accounting firms in the United States (CAS, Tax, Audit, Advisory practices)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "The next era of accounting" — transforming knowledge workers from doers into reviewers by deploying agents that autonomously complete work.

## Products & Services
- **Basis Platform**: An AI agent platform that runs in the background executing accounting workflows end-to-end. Core modules built for CAS, Tax, Audit, and Advisory practice areas. Agents conform to a firm’s standards, adapt to specific engagement context, and deliver finished work ready for review. Runs across cloud and on-premise accounting systems. [getbasis.ai](https://www.getbasis.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.15 billion (post Series B in February 2026) [getbasis.ai/careers](https://www.getbasis.ai/careers)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $137.6 million (across 4 rounds: Seed, Series A, Series B) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel (lead, Miles Clements), GV (Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois), BoxGroup, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Avid Ventures, Lloyd Blankfein (former CEO Goldman Sachs, lead Series B), Adam D’Angelo (CEO Quora), Nat Friedman (former CEO GitHub), Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist Google DeepMind), Noam Brown (OpenAI o1 co-creator), Amjad Masad (CEO Replit), Eric Wu (CEO Opendoor), and many other prominent angel investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 253.7% year-over-year headcount growth (95 employees as of mid-2026, up from ~27 a year prior). Active in 10 countries. Expanded from CAS into Tax and Audit verticals. 26 active job postings as of mid-2026. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain accuracy**: Built on foundational accounting principles, not a generic chatbot — agents understand the logic of the work itself and adapt to firm-specific standards.
- **End-to-end execution**: Agents run autonomously for hours, collaborating with accountants at key decision points, rather than just generating text suggestions.
- **Early market leadership**: Already deployed with the largest accounting firms in the country, with partners calling it the "most exciting new technology" they’ve seen in their careers.
- **Applied ML at scale**: Hundreds of agents behind every accountant, performing real, economically productive work for paying customers today. [getbasis.ai/about](https://www.getbasis.ai/about)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling across practice areas**: Expanding from CAS into Tax, Audit, and Advisory modules. A new "New Vertical" product design role is explicitly listed.
- **Building for a generational company**: "We believe the marginal cost of intelligence will trend toward zero… accounting is among the most important and foundational — and might happen the fastest." [getbasis.ai/about](https://www.getbasis.ai/about)
- **Deepening trust and governance**: Hiring Intelligence Architects and GRC specialists, indicating a focus on compliance, security, and enterprise-grade controls.
- **International expansion**: Already operating across 10 countries, with hires in Brazil, India, Argentina, and the UK. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & intensity**: "The whole team in one room. Not a lot of formal meetings, but interesting conversations happening constantly… The standards are high and the feedback is frequent. People here are kind and fun, but they also push each other to be better." [getbasis.ai/careers](https://www.getbasis.ai/careers)
- **Engineering-centric**: Technical roles account for ~20% of headcount. Operating principles emphasize clear thinking and are referenced every day. Whiteboards everywhere.
- **Perks**: Premium Medical, Dental, Vision; Life Insurance; 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions via Spring Health; unlimited PTO + 12 paid holidays; daily meal stipends; fully stocked kitchen; $300 custom desk setup; pre-tax commuter benefits; 401(k); paid parental leave.
- **Remote/office policy**: Office-first culture — "most of the team eats lunch and dinner together." Based in a dedicated office at 20 W 22nd St, New York (Flatiron district). No mention of fully remote roles in current postings.
- **Growth trajectory**: From ~27 to 95 employees in one year. Over 85% quarterly growth in job postings. Employees report huge responsibility from day one. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai)

## Sources
1. [getbasis.ai](https://www.getbasis.ai/)
2. [getbasis.ai/careers](https://www.getbasis.ai/careers)
3. [getbasis.ai/about](https://www.getbasis.ai/about)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basis-ai)

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