Ian Spalter

Ian Spalter is currently the Head of Instagram Japan at Meta. Prior to this, they were the Head of Design at Instagram from April 2015 to April 2019. Ian has also worked as the UX Lead & Manager at YouTube from November 2013 to April 2015, and as the Director of UX & Design at foursquare from June 2012 to October 2013. Before that, they were the VP Product Design at R/GA from March 2008 to May 2012, where they were responsible for the creative lead on Nike+/ Digital Sport business. Ian has also worked as the Associate Creative Director at R/GA from February 2004 to June 2006, and as the VP Product Management & UX at Community Connect, Inc from July 2006 to April 2008.

Ian Spalter studied multimedia design and cultural studies at Hampshire College. Ian then went on to work as a designer at Google, where they helped create the Material Design language.

Some of their coworkers include Grace Kao - Head of Global Business Marketing, Instagram, Justin Osofsky - COO, Instagram & VP, Global Operations - Meta, and Jim Squires - VP, Business & Media - Instagram. Ian Spalter reports to Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram.