Product Designer

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
• Understand our many accounting users
• Pair with founders to sketch Basis 2027, then distill it into quarterly bets
• Learn at warp speed

Preferred

• : Practical knowledge of accounting principles.
• Product ownership: Experience owning a product end-to-end

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

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

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.

Bonus points

Accounting

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 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 Support

Access to Carrot Fertility and paid parental leave.