Halcyon resume & CV template
A round photo beside a teal band, with the details in a tinted rail. Softer than most two-column pages and easy on a long history.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Product Designer, Northwind
Mar 2022 – Present
San Francisco, CA
- 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
Product Designer, Lumen Labs
Jan 2019 – Feb 2022
Remote
- 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
Junior Designer, Foundry Studio
Jun 2018 – Dec 2018
Portland, OR
- Designed marketing sites for eight early-stage clients
- Built the studio's first shared component library in Figma
EDUCATION
BA, Interaction Design, Rhode Island School of Design
Sep 2014 – May 2018
Providence, RI
Certificate, Human-Computer Interaction, University of California, San Diego
Feb 2020 – Aug 2020
Remote
CERTIFICATES
Nielsen Norman UX Certification, NN/g
Apr 2023 – Apr 2023
IAAP Accessibility Core Competencies, IAAP
Sep 2022 – Sep 2022
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Two columns with a tinted rail
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings with no rule
- Dates right-aligned against each role
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 Halcyon as a CV
Halcyon 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 Halcyon the right choice?
Who it suits
Anyone who wants a photo and a sidebar without the page turning corporate. The teal is soft enough for care work, teaching and non-profits.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns with a tinted rail. Worth checking, but there is nothing unusual in it.
At two pages
The rail runs out before the history does. Fine at a page and a half, awkward at two.
Use something else if
Frost for a cooler version, or Toronto if you want the rail on the other side.
Other templates
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