View and join organization teams – Figma Learn - Help Center

Who can use this feature

Available on the Organization and Enterprise plans.

A Figma organization is made up of teams. Each team can have its own:

Projects and files
Members
Team admins
Default libraries
Custom fonts

View teams in an organization

To view a list of teams in the organization:

On the Organization plan, click Browse in the sidebar.
On the Enterprise plan with workspaces enabled:
- Click Browse in the sidebar.
- Click on a workspace to view the teams inside.

Note: Organization admins can also view a list of open and closed teams in Admin settings. Admins can join, request to join, or leave teams from the Teams tab. Guests can only view teams to which they are invited.

Joining teams

Joining a team in your organization gives you access to available projects, files, and resources inside it.

Understanding team access:

Teams in a Figma organization have three access levels: open, closed, or secret.

Open: members can browse the contents of every open team. When someone joins an open team, they get can edit permissions by default. A team admin can change these default permissions.
Closed: Members must ask for permission to join a closed team. They can request can view or can edit access.
Secret: To join a secret team, members must be invited by an existing member.

Join an open team

Every member can search, view, and join open teams.

Click Browse in the file browser.
Navigate to the team you want to join and click on it.
Click Join team at the top right of the page.

Tip: By default, joining an open team gives people can edit permissions to the files in the team. However, team admins can change the default permissions to can view.

Join a closed team

Any member can search for and find closed teams, but they can't view any files or projects within them. Closed teams have a lock icon in the file browser.

Members of the closed team can invite other members without admin approval. They can only invite collaborators with the same permission level or lower. For example: a viewer can only invite a viewer, but an editor can invite a viewer or editor.

Members can ask to join closed teams with can view or can edit access. A team admin needs to approve any requests before they can join the team.

Click Ask to join on the team card.
Use the dropdown menu to choose can view or can edit access.
Add any notes or information to give the team admin some context (optional).
Click Request access.
Figma will send a notification to every admin on that team. You can only access the team once an admin has approved your request.

If you don't need access to the team any more, or want to request a different level of permissions, click Cancel request on the team card.

Join a secret team

Secret teams are hidden from members of the organization.

To access a secret team, a current member of the team needs to invite you. Only admins and people with can edit permissions can invite members or guests to secret teams.

Note: Organization admins can view the names of secret teams in the organization admin settings. Organization admins can also view activity related to secret teams, including members and file names, in the organization's activity logs.