Change a member’s role

Give each person the right level of access in a few clicks. Promote a team lead to admin so they can invite people and set up teams, or hand ownership to a new head of engineering. Every member has one organization role: owner, admin, or member.

Before you start

• Role: owner. Admins can invite and remove members, but only owners change roles.
• The person is already a member. If not, invite them first.

Steps

1. Open the organization menu in the top bar and choose Organization settings.
2. Open Members.
3. In the Active members table, find the person.
4. In the Role column, open the drop-down and choose owner, admin, or member.

An organization can have more than one owner. The last owner cannot be removed or demoted, so promote another person first. To hand over ownership, promote the new person to owner, then ask them to demote you.

From the CLI

Install and sign in first: Install the CLI.

marshal member role alice@example.com admin

The command takes the person’s email or user ID, then the new role. It prints Set alice@example.com → admin.

What you should see

• The drop-down shows the new role.
• The change applies right away. The person does not need to sign out.

Next

Create and manage a team: give your new admin a team to run.

Related

• Roles and permissions
• Invite a teammate
• Remove a member