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Founding Legal Counsel

Basis · New York Office · On-site

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About Basis

Basis builds AI agents that do real accounting work end-to-end. Top accounting firms use Basis across CAS, Tax, and Audit to turn their doers into reviewers and expand revenue capacity. Backed by Accel and Khosla.

About the role

Basis is looking for our first in-house Legal Counsel to help build the legal foundation for our next stage of growth. You’ll work closely with company leadership and teams across Finance, Sales, People, and Operations, owning a broad range of commercial and corporate legal matters.

More about this role

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

Basis is looking for our first in-house Legal Counsel to help build the legal foundation for our next stage of growth. You’ll work closely with company leadership and teams across Finance, Sales, People, and Operations, owning a broad range of commercial and corporate legal...

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