Managing Default Organization Roles

When an Organization is created, all users in your domain are granted the Billing Account Creator and Project Creator roles by default. These default roles allow your users to start using Google Cloud Platform immediately, but are not intended for use in regular operation of your Organization.

This page describes how to designate a Billing Account Creator and Project Creator for regular operations, and how to remove roles that were assigned by default to the Organization node.

Adding a Billing Account Creator and Project Creator

To migrate existing billing accounts into an Organization, a user must have the Billing Account Creator Cloud IAM role. Users with the Project Creator role are able to create and manage Project resources. To add additional Billing Account Creators and Project Creators, follow these steps:

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To grant the Billing Account Creator or Project Creator role using Google Cloud Platform Console:

1. Go to the Manage resources page in the GCP Console:

   Open the Manage resources page

2. On the Organization drop-down list, select your Organization.

3. Select the check box for the Organization resource. If you do not have a Folder resource, the Organization resource will not be visible. To continue, see the instructions for granting roles through the Cloud IAM page.

4. On the right side Info Panel, under Permissions, enter the email address of the member you want to add.

5. In the Select a role drop-down, select Billing > Billing Account Creator or Resource Manager > Project Creator.

6. Click Add. A dialog will appear to confirm the addition or update of the member's new role.

Removing default roles from the Organization node

After you designate your own Billing Account Creator and Project Creator roles, you can remove these roles from the Organization node to restrict those permissions to specifically designated users. To remove roles from the Organization node, follow these steps:

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To remove the roles assigned to users by default using the Google Cloud Platform Console:

1. Go to the Manage resources page in the GCP Console:

   Open the Manage resources page

2. Click the Organization drop-down list at the top of the page and then select your organization.

3. Select the check box for the Organization resource for which you want to change permissions. If you do not have a Folder resource, the Organization resource will not be visible. To continue, see the instructions for revoking roles through the Cloud IAM page.

4. On the right side panel, under Permissions, click to expand the role from which you want to remove users.

5. Under the expanded role list, next to the member you want to remove from the role, click remove.

6. On the Remove member? dialog that appears, click Remove to confirm removing the role from the specified member.

7. Repeat the above two steps for each role you want to remove.