How do I find my org admins?

Organization admins have special permissions in CircleCI that allow them to manage settings, billing, and team members. To perform certain administrative actions in CircleCI, you need to identify who has admin privileges in your VCS. 

CircleCI mirrors permissions from your VCS provider, meaning that VCS organization admin automatically have admin rights in CircleCI.

Prerequisites

• Active CircleCI account connected to your VCS
• Member access to your organization in your VCS
• Login credentials for your VCS provider

GitHub App and GitLab

Use these steps if you authenticate with email and password login accounts.

Step 1: Log in to the CircleCI App

Step 2: Navigate to Organization Settings in the left sidebar

Step 3: Select People from the menu

Step 4: Review the user list to identify administrators

Users with administrative permissions will be displayed with their role. You can adjust permissions from this page if you have the appropriate access level.

GitHub OAuth

Use these steps if you authenticate using GitHub's federated login (OAuth).

Step 1: Navigate to your GitHub organization page at https://github.com/orgs/{YOUR_ORG_NAME}/people

Step 2: Click the Role filter dropdown

Step 3: Select Owner from the filter options

This displays all users with Owner permissions, who have full administrative access to your organization.

Additional Information: GitHub Owners have complete administrative control, including managing members, settings, and billing. For more details, see the GitHub roles documentation.

Bitbucket

Step 1: Navigate to your Bitbucket workspace overview at https://bitbucket.org/{WORKSPACE_NAME}/workspace/overview

Step 2: Click your avatar thumbnail in the top right corner

Step 3: Select All workspaces from the dropdown menu

Step 4: Click Manage next to your desired workspace

Step 5: Select User directory from the left sidebar

Step 6: Click View access next to individual users to review their permissions

Alternative: Check User Groups

Bitbucket allows you to manage permissions using User Groups. To view group-based permissions:

1. Navigate to https://bitbucket.org/{WORKSPACE_NAME}/workspace/settings/groups
2. Select a user group to view its members and permissions
3. Groups with Admin permissions have full administrative access to the workspace

Alternative: View Users on Plan

To see all users associated with your Bitbucket plan:

1. From the User directory page, select Users on plan
2. Click View access to review individual user permissions

For more information about organizing workspace members, see Bitbucket's user groups documentation.

Additional Resources

• Manage Roles & Permissions

• Organize workspace members into groups

• Roles in an organization 

• GitHub permissions overview

• BitBucket permissions overview

• GitLab roles and permissions