About Basis

Basis is an AI platform for accounting firms, providing accountants with a team of AI assistants. Accounting teams integrate Basis as part of their team, delegating core workflows and automating time-consuming, manual work.

We closed a multi-fold oversubscribed seed round backed by top VCs last summer and are already in use at several leading, large accounting firms in the US.

📍 Location: NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.

Why does this role matter?

LLMs allow us to embed intelligence directly into software. This will challenge the existing assumptions of good software UX. We don’t know what the right UX is, but we do know that just like in the pivot to mobile, the right UX will be more than just a chatbot.

You will be in charge of leading Basis into the design unknown and navigating the ever-changing world of capabilities to build out designs that leverage the full potential of this technology.

For Basis, design involves not only designing our actual user experience today, but living in the future, working with customers to push the boundary of how our user experience might evolve over the next 5 years.

Your role

Build

• Design (and re-design) multiple products

• Architect design system to be used across the company as we scale

Take ownership

• Work directly with the co-founders

• Oversee significant parts of our product

• Own the brand/marketing identity for the company

Set culture and practice

• Shape our early design culture

Wear multiple hats

• Work directly with customers

• Work directly with engineers

• Work directly with our accounting thought-leaders

• Balance long-term thinking with shipping fast and iteratively

Are you the one?

Essentials

• Experience: 5-10 years of experience in the field; open to exceptional candidates with fewer years and evidence of exceptional ability

• First principles reasoner: Ability to break complex concepts down to their fundamental elements and then build from there

• Autonomy: Exercise a high-degree of autonomy and design authority

• Flexibility: Willing and interested to jump across multiple disciplines

• Team-first mentality: you are interested in building for the long-term alongside founding team members, and committed to mentoring others and being mentored

• Passion for vision: Genuinely excited about our tech and its impact on accounting, finance, and economy

• Curious about latest AI: Experimented with ChatGPT, etc.

• Experience with enterprise financial workflows: Worked with corporate financial data or products geared to businesses

• NYC-based: Seeking in-person environment; working from office most days of week

• All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to multiply our engineering speed. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously

• A little something extra: You know it when you see it

Bonus points

• Hiring: A knack for spotting and recruiting engineering talent

• Accounting: Practical knowledge of accounting principles.

• Product ownership: Experience owning a product end-to-end