Narratives & Communications Lead
Senior Communications role at Basis AI. New York · full-time · $100,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Shape how the world understands Basis and its place in AI plus accounting
- Build the company's voice from scratch, since no existing playbook fits
- Write publicly and often, turning a rare habit into a steady output
- Find and tell the stories only Basis is positioned to tell
- Craft a narrative that pulls in top-tier ML and engineering talent
What you bring
- Exceptional writing chops, ideally backed by a body of published work
- Ability to strip technical problems down to their basics and explain them plainly
- A pulse on what elite engineers and technologists read and care about, likely active on X or Substack
- Strong taste for what lands versus what feels manufactured
Who this fits
This suits a senior writer who thrives without a template and wants to define a category rather than follow one. You must work onsite in the Flatiron office with an in-person team. Expect an all-in pace, not a nine-to-five, in exchange for generous pay.
From the employer
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
We’re looking for someone to tell the story of Basis, the company.
You'll define how the world sees Basis. We're creating new categories at the intersection of AI and accounting, which means there's no playbook to follow. You'll establish our voice and figure out the stories we’re uniquely positioned to tell.
We like to write publicly (see here, here, and here) but we don’t do it nearly often enough. We need a Narratives & Comms lead who will change that, crafting a company narrative that stands out - especially to best-in-class ML/eng talent.
We want to be a generational company and need a brand that reflects that.
📍 Location: NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team.
What makes Basis special? (i.e., your narrative toolkit)
Frontier of applied AI
We’re building at the frontier of applied AI, and we’re one of the few application layer companies whose agents are actually deployed into firms, doing real work. Basis is leading the charge in converting raw model intelligence into economic productivity.
Few startups are doing this at all; none are doing it in an industry as critical as accounting.
Centrality of accounting
Accounting is the grammar of our financial economy. It is how the complexity of the real world is compressed into legible financial data, which individuals and firms use to make decisions. The quality of accounting directly impacts the overall quality of economic decision making.
Working in the real economy
By vastly improving the quality of accounting, we want to arm individuals and firms with more robust, real-time financial data, and create a world where better decisions are made.
Right now, that means arming accountants with teams of agents that take on their most laborious/manual tasks, guiding them towards a real-time close, and unlocking insights that would have otherwise remained hidden.
In the future, it could mean ushering in a world where there is a 1000x increase in accounting, and a commensurate increase in the quality of decision making.
What we look for
Excellent writer: Crafts compelling narratives and writes extraordinarily well. Ideally has a corpus of public writing.
First principles reasoner: Able to break complex technical problems down into fundamental components and communicate them clearly.
Understands the zeitgeist: Knows what best-in-class engineers/technologists think, read, care about, etc. Likely active on X and/or Substack.
Taste and judgment: Feels what resonates and what falls flat, can distinguish between authentic versus packaged messaging.
All-in: This is not a 9-5, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us and are looking to further accelerate our velocity. We are optimizing for the best folks and happy to compensate generously
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.
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