# Confidential roles

> Keep a role and its candidates visible only to the people on it, its leads and admins.

Turn on **Confidential** in a role’s **Team** section and only the people on that role, admins, and the managers who lead it can see it and its candidates. Everyone else, in the app, search and the OpenATS Extension, doesn’t know it exists.

*Team & permissions · Last updated 2026-11-11*

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## Make a role confidential

1. Open the role.
2. In its **Team** section, turn on **Confidential**.

Only admins and the role’s leads can turn it on or off, or change who’s on the role. The role’s recruiter always leads it.

## Who’s on the role

In the **Team** section, **Add to team** adds someone, **Make a lead** or **Stop leading** changes whether they lead it, and **Take off this role** removes them. Interviewers aren’t added to roles: they join interview panels instead.

## Leads of a client or department

A manager can lead a whole client (set on the client’s page) or a department (**Settings → Business information → Department leads**). A lead sees every role in it, confidential ones included. Admins choose the leads.

> **Note:** Candidates can be confidential too, for example private candidates imported from Greenhouse. They’re visible to admins, their owner and the people on their roles.

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Source: https://openats.ai/docs/team-and-permissions/confidential-roles
OpenATS help center: https://openats.ai/docs