Managing people's access to your organization with roles

Organization owners can assign roles to individuals and teams giving them different sets of permissions in the organization.

Learn how to view organization role permissions and manage organization role assignments.

You can control access to your organization and repository's settings with custom organization roles.

You can create, edit, and assign custom organization roles in an organization's settings.

Organizations can have more than one organization owner to avoid lapses in ownership.

A billing manager is a user who manages the billing settings for your organization, such as updating payment information. This is a great option if regular members of your organization don't typically have access to billing resources.

If a person with the billing manager role no longer needs to view or change your organization's billing information, you can remove their access to the organization.

You can give your security team the least access they need to configure and monitor code security for your organization by assigning a team to the security manager role.

You can give an individual or team in your organization the ability to block and limit access, by assigning them to the moderator role.