Free
Modern
Best for: most professionals. A crisp accent rule and tidy hierarchy — contemporary, but parses clean.
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Resume templates · Backstage · free to build
Resume templates that clear the bots and win the human read.
A gallery of professionally designed, ATS-ready layouts — Classic to Creative, New Grad to Executive. Pick one, build it free, preview live, and download a PDF (create a free account to download). Prep Backstage. Step into the spotlight.
Most templates free
ATS-friendly structure
Free PDF download
The gallery
Twenty-four designs. One clean, parsable foundation.
Every template shares the same recruiter-tested, ATS-ready structure underneath — so you can pick on style and audience without worrying whether a parser can read it. Grouped by vibe; switch anytime and your content carries over.
Professional
// boardroom-readyButtoned-up layouts for traditional industries and senior roles — clean hierarchy, conservative structure, zero risk through a parser.
Pro+
Executive
Best for: directors, VPs and C-suite. Centered title block leads with scope, with room for a board-ready summary.
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Corporate
Best for: banking, consulting and Fortune-500 roles. Navy section blocks and a structured contact bar read buttoned-up.
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Academic
Best for: research, academia and grants. A serif CV layout with room for publications, teaching and funding.
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Sidebar
Best for: roles where skills and contact belong in a panel. A dark sidebar with an avatar; the main column stays parsable.
Use this template · Pro+ →Pro+
Two-Tone
Best for: a confident, modern look. A split-color header makes your name pop while the body stays single-column.
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// show some personalityDesign-forward layouts for brand, marketing and design roles — color, display type and bold headers, with your core experience kept in a parsable column.
Pro+
Creative
Best for: design, marketing and brand roles. A warm gradient hero with personality; experience stays in a clean column.
Use this template · Pro+ →Pro+
Band
Best for: a bold first impression. A dark display-type header band sets the tone; the body keeps its tidy structure.
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Editorial
Best for: writers, editors and creatives. A magazine masthead in Fraunces serif over a two-column read, on warm paper.
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Photo
Best for: client-facing and international roles where a headshot helps. A photo header sits above a fully parsable body.
Use this template · Pro+ →Pro+
Gradient
Best for: growth, product and startup marketing. A soft violet-blue gradient header that reads modern without shouting.
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Startup
Best for: founders, early hires and operators. Leads with metric tiles and an "open to" badge — energetic and outcome-first.
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Infographic
Best for: visual roles that quantify skills. Skill bars and rings in a sidebar — with a plain-text experience column parsers can still read.
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Accent Corner
Best for: a subtle design touch on a safe layout. Geometric corner accents frame an otherwise clean, single-column resume.
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// ship the proofBuilt for engineers, data and IT — a skills/stack block up top, monospace detailing, and impact-led project bullets recruiters and parsers both love.
Free
Technical
Best for: engineers, data and IT. A monospace name and stack chips up top, then impact-led bullets.
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Timeline
Best for: a clear career arc. A vertical rail with milestone nodes makes progression and tenure easy to scan.
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Compact
Best for: deep experience that must fit one page. Tight spacing and efficient sections without feeling cramped.
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Newsprint
Best for: journalists, editors and writers. A newspaper masthead and column rules — characterful, yet built on real selectable text.
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// let the content speakRestrained, whitespace-led layouts that get out of the way — for people who want the words, not the decoration, to land first.
Free
Swiss
Best for: a confident, design-literate read. Oversized name, a strong rule, and a tidy label/content grid — pure typography.
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Minimal Mono
Best for: a quiet, deliberate signal of craft. All-monospace, lowercase headers, nothing but content and air.
Use this template →Pro+
Bold Type
Best for: sales, BD and leadership who want to be remembered. An oversized stacked name in Archivo, then a quiet, readable body.
Use this template · Pro+ →Pro+
Elegant
Best for: a refined, understated impression — consulting, luxury, hospitality. Centered Fraunces serif with a single gold rule.
Use this template · Pro+ →Free
Left Rule
Best for: a single, clean organizing device. One accent rule runs the page edge to anchor sections — minimal, structured, ATS-safe.
Use this template →Pro+
Monogram
Best for: a personal, branded touch. A centered initials crest tops an otherwise spare, refined single-column layout.
Use this template · Pro+ →No templates match that filter.
How it works
Pick a template, make it yours, download in minutes.
The builder is the Backstage app — quick, guided, and genuinely free. Switching templates never loses your content.
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Choose a design
Browse the gallery and pick the layout that fits your field and seniority. Core templates are free.
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Fill your sections
Guided fields with examples and prompts — experience, skills, education — so you never stare at a blank box.
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Preview & swap
Watch it format live, and try other templates instantly. Your content carries across every design.
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Download your PDF
Export a polished PDF free — create a free account so it saves to Backstage and you can edit anytime.
Free vs. Pro+
Honest about what's free — and what isn't.
Most templates and a real PDF download are free. A few premium designs and power features that take real craft and compute are part of a paid plan. Here's the exact line.
Free
$0
Build, preview, and download a PDF
- Core ATS-ready templates
- Live formatted preview
- Switch templates anytime
- Section guidance & examples
- PDF download — free, account required
- Saved to your Backstage workspace
Pro+
Plan · part of a paid plan
For an active, all-out search
- Everything in Free
- Premium templates beyond the core set
- AI writing & rewrite of summary and bullets
- Tailoring to a specific job description
- DOCX export for editable Word files
- Unlimited versions per role and audience
Done-for-you is separate. Per-application, human-tailored resumes — written and submitted for you by a real strategist — are part of the managed Career Concierge, not the self-serve builder.
Backstage & the marquee
Prep Backstage. Step into the spotlight.
Templates are part of Backstage — the free, self-serve career-tools layer. Do a lot here yourself, for free. When you're ready for someone to run the whole search, that's the marquee.
Backstage — free & self-serve
Pick a template
ATS-ready designs, live preview, free PDF download. You drive.
Use the free tools
Score your candidacy, find the side door, tailor and headline — all Backstage.
Prep on your own time
Everything saved to your workspace, ready when the right role appears.
The marquee — human-led Career Concierge
A real strategist runs it
A person tailors your materials per application — not a template, a human.
Outreach & referrals
The side door: recruiter outreach and warm intros, done on your behalf.
Applications submitted for you
You stop applying and start interviewing. Headline the marquee.
More Backstage tools
Keep prepping. It's all free.
Templates pair well with the rest of the free toolkit.
Templates
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Cover Letter Templates
A matching gallery of professionally designed cover-letter templates, built to pair with your resume and land the same clean read.
Browse templates → Tailor02
Résumé Tailor
Paste a job description to see your keyword match, the terms you're missing, and how to rewrite bullets so you clear the screen.
Try it free → Score03
Marqee Score
Get an instant candidacy score for a target role — how strong you'd read, and the three things holding you back.
Try it free → Side door04
Recruiter & Referral Finder
Skip the apply button. Map the recruiters and warm referral paths behind a company, with a draft message to open the side door.
Try it free →FAQ
About the resume templates.
Most are. Building with the core templates is free, and you can download a PDF for free once you create a free account. A handful of premium designs — plus DOCX export, AI rewrite and tailoring, and unlimited versions — are part of a paid plan.
Yes. Every template is built on a clean, parser-friendly structure with standard section headings and real selectable text. Minimal designs like Swiss and Left Rule are the most conservative, and even design-forward templates like Creative and Infographic keep your core experience in a parsable single column.
No account is needed to start building with any template. A free account is only required when you download, so your resume saves to your Backstage workspace and you can return to edit it anytime.
The gallery is grouped by vibe. Professional designs like Modern, Executive and Corporate suit traditional industries and senior roles; Creative designs like Editorial, Gradient and Startup fit design, marketing and brand work; Technical designs like Technical and Infographic suit engineers and data; Minimal designs like Swiss, Minimal Mono and Left Rule keep the focus on your content. You can switch templates anytime without re-typing anything.
The builder is self-serve and free, with expert-assisted tailoring on paid plans. Done-for-you, per-application tailoring written and submitted by a real strategist is part of the managed Career Concierge — the human-led service that runs your whole search.
Prep Backstage.
Headline the marquee.
Pick a template and build your resume free today. When you'd rather have a real person run the whole search — tailoring every application and opening the side door — that's the Career Concierge.