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Managing people's access to your organization with roles

A person's role in your organization defines their level of access to your organization, its settings, and your data. You can make people owners, members, or billing managers for your organization, or you can give them team maintainer permissions.

Permission levels for an organization

After you create an organization, you should give Owner permissions to a small group of people who will manage the organization account.

Changing a person's role to owner

Organization owners can give owner permissions to any member of the organization.

Giving "team maintainer" permissions to an organization member

An organization owner can promote any member of the organization to team maintainer for a team, giving them a subset of privileges available to organization owners.

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