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title: Organization Roles
description: Use organization roles in Couchbase Capella to manage the
  privileges of your organization's users.
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# Organization Roles

> Use organization roles in Couchbase Capella to manage the privileges of your organization's users. 

Every user account in Couchbase Capella has an organization role that determines the privileges they have for Capella UI access inside that organization.

Use [projects](../projects/projects.md) and [project roles](../projects/project-roles.md) to grant more specific privileges and access to clusters, data, and data tools. Use [cluster access credentials](../clusters/manage-database-users.md) to manage your programmatic and application-level access to a cluster's data.

The following table describes the available organization roles and their privileges.

__Table 1\. Organization Roles__
| Role                    | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Organization Owner**  | An Organization Owner can: Access the Capella UI Invite and manage [organization users](manage-organization-users.md) View and manage organization settings View and manage [billing](../billing/billing.md) View and manage all [projects](../projects/projects.md) in the organization View and manage [API keys](../management-api-guide/management-api-start.md) in the organization View and manage [SSO realms and teams](ui-auth/add-sso-auth.md) Manage [Capella iQ](../get-started/capella-iq/work-with-capellaiq.md) View and manage [upgrade maintenance jobs](../clusters/upgrade-database.md) Organization Owners automatically have the [Project Owner](../projects/project-roles.md#project-owner-role) project role for all projects in the organization. An organization must have at least one user with the **Organization Owner** role at all times. |
| **Project Creator**     | A Project Creator: Can create [projects](../projects/projects.md) Has all privileges granted by the [Organization Member](#organization-role-member) role Project Creators automatically have the [Project Owner](../projects/project-roles.md#project-owner-role) project role for any project that they create.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| **Organization Member** | An Organization Member can: Access the Capella UI View organization settings View organization users View [projects](../projects/projects.md) where they're a member View [teams](ui-auth/manage-role-mapping.md) Organization Members have privileges in a project based on their [project role](../projects/project-roles.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |