Cascade resume & CV template
A bright blue band with a round photo and the dates stepped down their own column. Energetic without being juvenile.
Summary
Product designer with 8 years shipping data-heavy tools for small teams. I work close to engineering, prototype in code, and care most about the boring flows nobody screenshots.
Experience
Mar 2022 – Present
San Francisco, CA
Senior Product Designer, Northwind
- Led the redesign of the reporting suite, cutting time-to-first-report from 11 minutes to under 2
- Built and maintained the design system now used by 4 product teams
- Ran the research programme that reshaped the 2024 roadmap
Jan 2019 – Feb 2022
Remote
Product Designer, Lumen Labs
- Owned onboarding end to end; activation rose from 34% to 58%
- Shipped the mobile app's first accessible colour system
- Ran the weekly design critique that became the team's review standard
Jun 2018 – Dec 2018
Portland, OR
Junior Designer, Foundry Studio
- Designed marketing sites for eight early-stage clients
- Built the studio's first shared component library in Figma
Education
Sep 2014 – May 2018
Providence, RI
BA, Interaction Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Feb 2020 – Aug 2020
Remote
Certificate, Human-Computer Interaction, University of California, San Diego
Skills
- Design systems (Expert)
- Prototyping (Expert)
- User research (Advanced)
- Figma (Expert)
- HTML & CSS (Advanced)
- Accessibility (Advanced)
- Design tokens (Advanced)
- Usability testing (Advanced)
Languages
- English (Native)
- Spanish (Fluent)
- Portuguese (Conversational)
Certificates
Apr 2023 – Apr 2023
Nielsen Norman UX Certification, NN/g
Sep 2022 – Sep 2022
IAAP Accessibility Core Competencies, IAAP
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Single column
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings with no rule
- Dates in their own left column
Every one of these is a setting, not a constraint — accent colour, font, size, spacing and page margins stay yours under Customize, and switching template later re-renders what you’ve written rather than starting it over.
Using Cascade as a CV
Cascade carries a photo, which is what a continental European CV expects alongside the personal details a British one leaves out. For the UK, Ireland or Australia, turn the photo off in Customize — the layout closes up around it and the rest of the page is unchanged.
It sits at a normal density, which lands most histories on the two pages a non-academic CV is expected to fit.
More on the differences: CV templates and CV examples.
Is Cascade the right choice?
Who it suits
Energetic modern applications with a photograph and a varied history — product, marketing, agency work.
What it does to ATS parsing
Single column with a filled band and dates in their own column. Safe.
At two pages
Strong. The date column keeps working after the band is gone.
Use something else if
Kingfisher for a second column, or Skipper for a deeper navy.
Other templates
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