After following this, I found that the cloud instance user had "No roles defined" for Role when I clicked the Edit button for our application in the user's Manage User view.

This remained true even after ensuring the user had all roles at https://account.fusionauth.io/account/user/ and reloading the cloud instance Users view (in case there is any linkage between account roles and instance roles...but it appears there isn't any).

I don't see any way at https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/core-concepts/roles to create a role, nor can I find any by hunting in left nav.

Ah, but if one selects Applications in the cloud instance UI, there is a Manage Roles button (for applications other than the default FusionAuth one). In that view, the Add button opens a modal with form fields corresponding to the role attributes described at https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/core-concepts/roles#role-attributes

I believe I should use the following settings:
SuperRole = on
Default = off
Name = <applicationName>SuperRole

Then I can follow the steps in Dan's list above to assign the role to the user.

Ah, but if one selects Applications in the cloud instance UI, there is a Manage Roles button (for applications other than the default FusionAuth one). In that view, the Add button opens a modal with form fields corresponding to the role attributes described at https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/core-concepts/roles#role-attributes

I believe I should use the following settings:
SuperRole = on
Default = off
Name = <applicationName>SuperRole

Then I can follow the steps in Dan's list above to assign the role to the user.

After following this, I found that the cloud instance user had "No roles defined" for Role when I clicked the Edit button for our application in the user's Manage User view.

This remained true even after ensuring the user had all roles at https://account.fusionauth.io/account/user/ and reloading the cloud instance Users view (in case there is any linkage between account roles and instance roles...but it appears there isn't any).

I don't see any way at https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/core-concepts/roles to create a role, nor can I find any by hunting in left nav.