Changing account owners

Overview

This topic explains how to change which account member has the Owner role in your LaunchDarkly account, as well as what the Owner role entails.

About the Owner role

In LaunchDarkly, Owner is a unique role that only one account member can have. Owners have absolute power over your entire LaunchDarkly account, including the ability to add or remove the Admin role from other account members, or to remove the Owner role from themselves and assign it to someone else.

Every LaunchDarkly account must have one member with the Owner role. By default, the person who creates your LaunchDarkly account is given the Owner role.

To learn more about member roles, read Manage account members.

Change account owners

You can change account owners from the General settings screen.

Only the current account owner can change which member has the Owner role, and only account members with verified LaunchDarkly accounts can become account owners.

If you are not the owner of your LaunchDarkly account and need to change which member has the Owner role, contact Support.

To change account owners:

1. Log in to LaunchDarkly as the account owner.
2. Click the gear icon in the left sidenav to view Organization settings. The General settings page appears.
3. In the "Change owner" section, click your name. A menu of other account members appears.
4. Choose a new account member from the menu by clicking or searching.
5. Click Update owner. The "Sign in to LaunchDarkly" screen appears.
6. Reauthenticate with your credentials. If your organization uses SSO or SCIM for LaunchDarkly, enter only your email to trigger SSO or SCIM authentication.
7. After you authenticate, the General settings page appears.
8. Select the same new account member as in step 4. A confirmation appears.
9. Confirm that you want to update the account owner by clicking Change.

Your role changes to Admin. The account member you chose now has the Owner role.