Google Group Roles and Permissions

You can use roles to assign permissions to members of your Google Group. There are three default roles in Google Groups.

Default Google Group roles

The owner role has the highest level of permissions and can do the following:

The number of owners in a group should be kept to a minimum as they have the greatest control over the group.

The manager role can do the following:

Everyone in a group has the member role by default and can do the following:

Permissions given to the Members role are automatically applied to all other roles.

Group owners can view all permissions and change roles for individual members using the following steps:

Select the group you wish to manage and on the left, click Members.
From the sortable list of members, point to the member and in the Role column, click on the down arrow and select the desired role.
Change multiple members’ roles at once by checking the box next to their names (hover over their name for the box to appear) and, above the list, clicking the Change role icon and select the desired role.