Jira, change project Lead in a Next-Gent project Atlassian has launched a new feature on Jira Cloud instances: Next-Gent project Roles, Workflow and settings are not the same as in usual. When one creates a Next-Gent project, the creator is the "Project Lead", and changin this is not straight: How-to-change-project-lead-in-a-Next-Gen-Project How-do-i-set-default-assignee-and-workflow-in-next-gen-projects Here is the merge Get the ID of your project: say 10002 Go to https:// [account name] .atlassian.net/secure/project/EditProject!default.jspa?pid= 10002 Set the project Lead