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
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.
What they'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
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
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...
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