Roles & permissions
What each workspace role can do, and how to choose roles for your team.
Every member has one role, set when they're invited and changeable any time from Settings → Members → Active members.
The roles
| Role | Intended for | In short |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Agency principal | Everything, with no restrictions. |
| Admin | Ops / senior managers | Everything an owner does day-to-day: all records including placement fees, all reports including Placement Finance, workspace settings, and member management. |
| Team lead | Desk / pod leads | Full recruiting access across companies, contacts, candidates, jobs, applications, interviews, lists, activities and tasks. Placements are read-only and fee figures are hidden. Reports yes, finance reports no. Can invite teammates but cannot change roles, remove members or revoke invites, and cannot open workspace settings. |
| Recruiter | Consultants | The 360 desk: full control of companies, contacts, candidates, applications, interviews, lists, activities and tasks, and can create and edit placements — but jobs are read-only, placement fee figures are hidden, and Reports are not available at all. |
| Coordinator | Delivery support | Schedules and runs interviews, moves applications through stages, and manages activities and tasks. Candidates, contacts, companies, lists and placements are read-only; there is no access to Jobs and no Reports. |
| Sourcer | Research / talent pool | Full control of candidates and lists. Companies, contacts, jobs, applications and interviews are read-only; notes and tasks can be created but not edited or deleted; no placements and no Reports. |
| Viewer | Stakeholders | Read-only everywhere, including Reports. Cannot save or change table views. |
Placement fee and finance figures, and the Placement Finance dashboard, are limited to Owners and Admins. Everyone else sees placements without the money.
Rules worth knowing
- Managing the team: only owners and admins can change roles, remove members and revoke invitations.
- Inviting: owners, admins and team leads can invite. A team lead can only invite Recruiter, Coordinator, Sourcer and Viewer; an owner or admin can invite any role at or below their own. The invite dialog never offers Owner — a second owner is appointed by an existing Owner changing an existing member's role.
- Invitations expire after 14 days and hold a seat until they're accepted, revoked or expired. See Billing & seats.
- Self-protection: you can't change your own role, you can't assign a role above your own, and the workspace always keeps at least one owner or admin.
- Email visibility is orthogonal to roles — even an owner can't read a teammate's restricted mailbox beyond its sharing level. See Email privacy & sharing.
Choosing roles
Default consultants to Recruiter — but if they need Reports, or to create and edit jobs themselves, they need Team lead or higher. Reserve Owner/Admin for people who should see fee figures and change workspace settings. Use Viewer for anyone who needs to see, not touch.