The user must be an agent in order for you to assign a ticket to them. See Jira Service Desk permission documentation. A common scenario is to have another project that contains issues for developers (for example, in the software development context), and there are links between the Service Desk project and Jira project. That way, you can assign a ticket to others without using Service Desk agent licenses.
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