8 Real Designer Resumes That Passed the Bar at Google and Meta

What does a resume that actually gets interviews at Google or Meta look like? We collected eight real examples from designers who went on to work at Google, Facebook (now Meta), and Instagram — and they agree with each other to a surprising degree.

Every one of these resumes shares five habits:

• One page — from intern to senior lead, no exceptions.
• Name and role title at the top, so a recruiter knows what they are looking at in one second.
• Bullets that lead with outcomes (“reduced driver wait time by 20%”), not job duties.
• Visual restraint: one or two typefaces, mostly black and white, at most a single accent color. The design skill shows up in typography and spacing, not decoration.
• A visible portfolio URL — the resume gets you screened in; the portfolio gets you hired.

The eight designers: Rachel Schmitz (Google), Sanat Rath (Google, later WhatsApp at Meta), Hanna Jung (Google Play, now YouTube), Simon Pan (Google), Maggie Banks (Google Nest), Jessie Van (Google), Jihoon Suh (Meta, now Coinbase), and Min Zhou (Instagram, now Meta AI).

Whether you are breaking into UX design or already a senior IC, steal the patterns below — not the templates.

The 8 resumes, and what to steal from each

1. Rachel Schmitz — Interaction Designer at Google

Source: Rachel Schmitz

Rachel spent two years as an interaction designer at Google, then designed iMessage games at Secret Mumbo and went on to lead design at Codi.

Steal this: the dedicated “Achievements” sidebar. Shipping results like “over 1M collective downloads” get their own block instead of drowning inside job bullets.

2. Sanat Rath — Interaction Designer at Google

Source: Bestfolios

Sanat Rath joined Google in New York as an interaction designer on Docs, Sheets & Slides, where he led work on the suite’s internal style guide. He later moved to Meta to design for WhatsApp.

Steal this: skills grouped into named categories (design, prototyping, research, collaboration) instead of one undifferentiated keyword pile — easier for a human to scan and for software to parse.

3. Hanna Jung — Senior UX Designer, Google Play

Source: Bestfolios

This resume, from Hanna’s days as a lead UX designer at MicroStrategy, helped land her a senior UX role on the Google Play team. She is now a staff UX designer at YouTube.

Steal this: proof that dense can still be scannable. The left rail carries every method and tool; the main column stays chronological. If you have a lot to show, strict hierarchy beats a second page.

4. Simon Pan — Product Designer at Google

Source: Simon Pan

Simon designed at Medium, Uber, and Amazon before joining Google as a product designer in San Francisco.

Steal this: the section is literally titled “Experience & Impact”, and every single bullet is a measured outcome — “reduced average driver wait-time (-20%)”, “increased monthly active days per customer (+50%)”. This is the most-copied designer resume on this list for a reason.

5. Maggie Banks — Interaction Designer, Google Nest

Source: Maggie Banks

Maggie studied product design and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon, interned at YouTube and Jet.com, and joined Google’s hardware design team, where she helped ship Nest Wifi.

Steal this: zero decoration. One typeface, no rules, no icons, no color — and it still reads as designed because the spacing and alignment are exact. A strong early-career move: let the awards and a 3.9 GPA do the talking.

6. Jessie Van — UX Designer at Google

Source: Jessie Van

Jessie worked on growth features for Android Pay at Google, after interface and motion design work at Samsung R&D, Method, Moving Brands, and Razorfish.

Steal this: the “Profile” column opens with a genuine point of view on product design — and even admits the tool list is curated (“to avoid a full laundry list… I’ve kept it to just my favorites”). Personality, deployed precisely.

7. Jihoon Suh — Senior Product Designer at Meta

Source: Jihoon Suh

At Meta, Jihoon designed audio and video hangout platforms across Messenger and Instagram, plus Facebook’s social gaming products. He is now a senior product designer at Coinbase.

Steal this: the quiet label rail keeps the whole page to one accent color, and the publications section converts an HCI research background into instant credibility.

8. Min Zhou — Product Designer at Instagram

Source: Case Study Club

This is the internship-era resume that got Min Zhou into Facebook and Instagram, where she worked on private sharing for Instagram Stories. She has since designed at OpenSea and now works on AI products at Meta.

Steal this: a “Projects” section that treats hackathons like jobs. When you are early in your career, side projects are experience — give them dates, locations, and outcomes.

The ATS reality check: pretty is not enough

Everybody can write a resume, but not everybody can do it right — and before a human ever sees yours, software usually ranks it. Harvard Business School’s Hidden Workers study found that more than 90% of surveyed employers use their recruiting-management software to make the first cut, and 88% admit qualified candidates get filtered out simply because their resumes don’t match the job description’s exact wording.

Notice what the eight examples above are not: no skill-meter infographics, no headshots, no three-color illustration systems. That restraint is not a coincidence — it reads as taste to a hiring manager and parses cleanly for the machines.

Practical rules that follow:

• Export a text-based PDF, never a flattened image. If you can select the text, a parser can read it.
• Use real section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) and standard job titles.
• Mirror the language of the job description where it is honest to do so.
• Keep the expressive, graphic version of you in your portfolio — the resume’s job is to survive the filter and set up the click.

For a deeper checklist, see our 7 expert tips to build a resume that gets you hired at a Fortune 500 company.

Steal the pattern, not the template

Copying Simon Pan’s layout won’t get you Simon Pan’s interviews — the pattern underneath will: one page, outcomes with numbers, ruthless visual restraint, and a portfolio link that pays off the click. Once the resume starts working, be ready for what comes next with the most-asked Google product design interview questions.

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