Organizational chart template

About the org chart template

Whether you're looking to resize your company or simply visualize your organization today, this template connects your structure and people data in one place, making it easy to view, share, and update as your teams evolve.

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Built for CEOs, HR leaders, and department heads—from small businesses to enterprises—it adapts to your needs and keeps you agile. Onboard new hires with a clear flowchart of your team’s structure, or expand it into a full employee directory with job titles, headshots, contact details, and even birthdays.

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With real-time collaboration, you can instantly model new structures, compare layouts, or switch to gallery view to quickly match names and faces. And with seamless integrations, like Workday, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint, your org chart stays accurate, shareable, and in sync with the way your team works.

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Try the company organization chart template

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What is an organizational chart template?

An organizational chart template is a pre-built framework for mapping your company's reporting structure, showing chain of command, departments, and individual contributors across your entire organization. It gives HR leaders, managers, and executives a clear visual representation of how teams connect, so onboarding new employees, planning headcount, and communicating structure to stakeholders takes minutes instead of hours.

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How to build an organizational chart with our template

1. Define the purpose

Decide what your company organization chart should communicate: a high-level view (executives and departments), a detailed map (every employee, title, and reporting lines), or a specialized use case like an employee directory, succession planning, or workforce allocation.

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2. Collect accurate people data

Gather the essentials:

• Names and job titles
• Roles and responsibilities
• Departments and teams
• Reporting relationships (managers and direct reports)
• Optional: photos, contact info, locations, birthdays

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3. Customize your org chart

Fill in the key fields—employee name, title, department, and supervisor (as a linked record)—to reflect your company’s structure. Enhance it with headshots, office locations, or short bios to create a high-quality employee directory. For a professional touch, brand your chart with your company logo and fonts.

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4. Link reporting relationships

Structure your chart to match your organization's hierarchy. Start with diagramming to map it out first. Use the supervisor field to connect each employee to their manager. These links create the hierarchy that powers your chart and keeps “who reports to whom” crystal clear.

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5. Try different views

Choose the right formatting for the right stakeholder. Switch between views to match your audience and use case:

• Hierarchy chart (tree): Classic top-down view
• Matrix: For dual reporting structures
• Flat: Ideal for startups or small teams
• Flowchart-style diagram: Process-like visualization of reporting lines

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6. Automate and integrate

Use our AI-powered workflow automations to keep your chart current without manual upkeep.

• Sync people data from HRIS (think: Workday), spreadsheets, or Microsoft Word docs
• Trigger alerts when new hires join or teams move
• Auto-update roles or titles when records change

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More org chart templates and examples

Looking for more templates? Explore these free organizational chart templates, designed for every type of team.

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Product team org chart template

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Quickly visualize your product organization with Airtable’s product team org chart template, complete with customizable roles, reporting relationships, and visuals to map engineers, product managers, and cross-functional leads. This dynamic workspace helps you instantly see team structure, simplify onboarding, and adapt as your product teams grow.

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Marketing org chart template

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Quickly visualize your marketing team’s structure with Airtable’s marketing org chart template, featuring customizable roles, reporting links, and visuals to map out content, social, and campaign leads. This dynamic template makes it easy to align your team, simplify new-hire onboarding, and adapt as your marketing department scales.

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Sales org chart template

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Quickly visualize your sales organization's structure with Airtable’s sales org chart template, featuring customizable roles, reporting links, and visuals to map out account executives, team leads, and regional managers. This dynamic template helps you align your sales team, streamline onboarding, and scale efficiently as your sales department grows.

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Startup org chart template

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Quickly visualize your startup’s team structure with Airtable’s startup org chart template, featuring customizable roles, reporting links, and visuals to map out founders, co‑founders, and early hires. This dynamic template helps you align your team, support rapid onboarding, and adapt as your startup evolves.

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Company restructuring plan template

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Quickly model new organizational structures with Airtable’s company restructuring plan template, allowing you to compare multiple “what-if” scenarios side by side. This dynamic template helps you evaluate roles, reporting lines, and team configurations so you can reorganize confidently and strategically.

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Remote team hub template

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Quickly centralize your distributed workforce with Airtable’s remote team hub template, featuring customizable fields for roles, locations, time zones, and collaboration tools. This dynamic template helps you keep teams connected, streamline communication, and ensure alignment across remote operations.

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Benefits of our organization chart template

• Clearly visualize company structure: Turn complex reporting lines into a clear corporate organizational chart, so every team member understands how your company is organized.
• Improve the onboarding experience: Help new hires feel connected right away with a visual employee directory that goes beyond names and titles—add photos, contact details, and even project management responsibilities.
• Improve decision-making: Use your org chart to optimize hiring, spot gaps, and align resources. Whether you’re planning a restructure or scoping future projects, the chart helps leadership see the full picture.
• Collaborate in real-time: Brainstorm and test new structures with executives or HR leaders. Compare different layouts and keep every team member aligned as your organization evolves.
• Adapt to each stakeholder's needs: From high-level views for leadership to detailed departmental org charts, adapt the template to create the company structure that serves your exact needs.
• Integrate into your existing workflows: Sync with tools like Workday, Microsoft Office, Slack, or whiteboarding tools like Miro, so people and projects stay in sync.

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What can Claude do in your organizational chart template?

Connect Airtable to Claude using the Claude + Airtable MCP and you can ask Claude to update employee records, surface open positions, and navigate your entire corporate organizational chart template without touching a single field manually. Here are some prompts to try:

• Pull all employees in the [DEPARTMENT] and show me their titles, managers, and time allocation. Flag any open positions and tell me which roles have no one assigned.
• We have a new hire joining [DATE]: [NAME], [TITLE], reporting to [MANAGER], in [DEPARTMENT]. Create their employee record, link them to the right manager, and assign them to the correct department.
• Show me a breakdown of FTE headcount by department. Flag any department where open positions make up more than 25% of total team size and suggest which to prioritize for hiring.

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Use Airtable to get a full picture of your organization

With our HR management solutions, you can manage recruiting pipeline, streamline your onboarding processes, and keep your team aligned as your company grows. Orchestrate everything from your HR policies to your new hire onboarding from Airtable. Get started with our org chart template, and customize it to fit your exact needs.

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Frequently asked questions

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What types of organizational charts can I build with this template?

The template supports several types of organizational charts depending on your structure. A hierarchical org chart works for traditional top-down reporting lines. A matrix org chart maps employees who report into multiple teams or functions and is common in large corporations running cross-functional initiatives. A flat structure suits startups or small teams with few or no middle management layers. Switch between views to match the structure chart your stakeholders actually need.

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How is Airtable's org chart template different from a mind map or diagram tool?

A mind map or standalone diagram tool gives you a static visual representation, which is useful for a one-time snapshot, but disconnected from your real people data. Airtable's organizational chart template is a live workspace: reporting relationships, headshots, contact details, and department assignments all update in real time. When someone changes roles, the chart updates with them.

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Can I customize the look of the org chart?

Yes. You can apply color coding by department, team, or employment status to make the structure chart easier to scan at a glance. Add headshots, titles, and contact details to build out a professional organizational chart that doubles as an employee directory. For a more branded output, apply your company logo and fonts.

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Does this template support drag-and-drop editing?

Yes. You can reorganize reporting relationships with drag-and-drop directly in the org chart view, no manual field editing required. This makes it easy to model restructures, test new configurations, and compare layouts before committing to a change.

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Can I use this template as an organizational chart example to share with new employees?

Yes, that is one of the most common uses. Share a filtered or role-based view with new employees during onboarding so they can immediately understand the chain of command, find colleagues by department, and see how the business process is organized across teams. You can include photos, bios, and contact details to make it feel like a real directory, not just a structure chart.

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Is this template suitable for large corporations with complex structures?

Yes. The template handles matrix organizational chart structures, multiple departments, individual contributors, and middle management layers without performance issues. Large corporations can segment views by department or region, track open positions alongside filled roles, and share role-specific interfaces so each team sees only what's relevant to them.