Designer resume — templates, keywords, and bullet examples
Designer resumes have a unique tension: visual polish matters AND the document still has to pass an ATS. Picking a template that does both is half the battle.
How to angle a designer resume
The strongest designer resumes lead the Summary with the most senior cross-functional collaboration you've done — "design partner to a 4-team eng org, owning end-to-end flows" — because that's the senior IC signal hiring managers care about.
For your portfolio link, use a short canonical URL (yourname.com) rather than a long Behance / Dribbble URL. Recruiters click the short ones at 3x the rate.
Section order: Summary → Experience → Skills → Education → Projects (case studies).
Recommended templates for designers
ATS keywords recruiters filter on
These are the keywords most designer JDs use as their ATS-filter inputs. Make sure the ones you genuinely have evidence for are in your Skills section.
Starter Skills section
Paste this into the Skills section of the editor as a starting point, then prune to what you genuinely have evidence for.
Bullet examples you can adapt
Three starter bullets following the action-verb / quantified-outcome pattern. Replace bracketed placeholders with your actual specifics — never invent.