Tidewater resume & CV template
A navy rail with the photo, and tinted bands behind every heading in the light column beside it.
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 dark rail
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings on a tinted bar
- 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 Tidewater as a CV
Tidewater 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 Tidewater the right choice?
Who it suits
Sidebar pages that need strong section markers in the main column too. The banded headings are what the rail cannot do.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns with a filled rail and background fills behind the headings. All ordinary text.
At two pages
The bands hold the second page together after the rail stops. A good long-history sidebar choice.
Use something else if
Belfry for the rail on the right, or Onyx for a serif version.
Other templates
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