Narratives & Communications Lead

🚨 Basis Raises $100M Series B — Hiring Aggressively with Paraform

We’re excited to announce that Basis has raised a $100M Series B at a $1.15B valuation, led by Accel and GV (Google Ventures), following their $34M Series A led by Khosla Ventures. Basis has been an exceptional hiring partner with Paraform — completing 11 hires over the past year — and plans to more than double headcount in the next year. They are hiring aggressively across all active roles on Paraform.

We’ve compiled extensive materials in the Recruiter Overview (Google Doc) covering Basis’s mission, company momentum, funding, team, and additional articles to help you engage candidates and understand the opportunity.

We’re excited to support Basis through their growth journey and hope you’ll join us!!

Learn more: → LinkedIn Announcement → Bloomberg Feature → Meet the Team Article

Our Open Roles on Paraform:

Member of Technical Staff — Product Engineering (10+ spots)
Member of Technical Staff — Applied ML (10+ spots)
Member of Accounting Staff (10+ spots)
Engineering Leader — Platform (3 spots)
Engineering Leader — Applied ML (3 spots) 
Product Designer — New Verticals (2+ spots)
Senior Engineering Recruiter
Narratives & Communications Lead
Recruiting Coordinator
Revenue Operations

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.

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: Crafting compelling narratives and writing extraordinarily well. Ideally you have a corpus of public writing.

First principles reasoner: You're able to break complex technical problems down into fundamental components and communicate them clearly.

Understanding the zeitgeist: You know what best-in-class engineers/technologists think, read, care about, etc. Likely active on X and/or Substack.

Taste and judgment: Can feel what resonates and what falls flat, and 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

Seniority

2 -​ 10 years of experience in writing,​ journalism,​ or adjacent backgrounds Work experience

Backgrounds where writing is a core part of their responsibilities:​ VC,​ journalism,​ in-​house comms/marketing,​ devrel Updated

Has a public portfolio of work Updated

Has done written marketing for a successful high growth startup (Ramp,​ Cursor,​ Tesla) Updated

Interest in finance,​ fintech,​ and AI Updated Education

Degree from an elite university in writing,​ english,​ philosophy,​ or similar Updated Hard skills

Crafts compelling narratives and writes extraordinarily well.​ Has a corpus of public writing Updated

Technologist first:​ Knows what best-​in-​class engineers/technologists think,​ read,​ care about,​ etc.​ Likely very active on X and/or Substack Updated Soft skills

First principles thinker.​ AI for finance and accounting is still being defined and we want this person to help distill and communicate our vision of that.​ Updated Miscellaneous

Must be willing to work 5 days a week on-​site Updated Traits to avoid

People that are generic tech marketers or political writers Updated

Don't have public facing written works Updated

Don't understand AI beyond the surface level Updated

Salary $100K - $225K Equity Includes Equity On-site work policy In person in our New York office Visa sponsorship available Hiring Count Looking to hire 1 candidate for this role Location New York Report to Candidate questions View 4 questions to ask candidates Interview process 4 steps

Why candidates should join

This is a unique role in itself and we are excited to be able to share it.

Why join Basis?

Raised our \$34M series A and have ample runway

Growing extremely fast with a highly accomplished team

Working on the frontier of AI applications in accounting and finance

Generous equity for early members

Offsites, happy hours, and great team atmosphere

About us

We started Basis with the core belief that agents would become an integral part of knowledge work in the near future, and that accounting would be among the first and most important domains where this happened. Accounting is structured, high-stakes, and essential to every business on earth. It's also one of the most underbuilt areas in technology.

Here we are 3 years later, and Basis can now complete a partnership tax workbook end to end. Basis' abilities improve monthly and the rate of improvement itself is increasing. Every day accountants use Basis to create complex journal entries, debug difficult reconciliations, prepare technical accounting memos, and much more. We're deploying real agents to do real work in the real economy.

The world is going to look very different in 2030, and accounting will be at the center of that transformation in ways most people don't yet appreciate. Read more about how we're thinking about the work.