diff --git a/website/docs/docs/guides/migration-guide/upgrading-to-0-18-0.md b/website/docs/docs/guides/migration-guide/upgrading-to-0-18-0.md
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--- a/website/docs/docs/guides/migration-guide/upgrading-to-0-18-0.md
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@@ -50,3 +50,4 @@ Please be aware of the following changes in v0.18.0. While breaking, we do not e
 - [list (ls)](commands/list)
 - [Redshift profile](redshift-profile#specifying-an-iam-profile)
 - [`asset-paths` config](asset-paths) (also updated [dbt_project.yml](dbt_project.yml.md) and the [description](description) docs to match)
+- [`impersonate_service_account` in the BigQuery profile configuration](https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/warehouse-profiles/bigquery-profile#service-account-impersonation)
diff --git a/website/docs/reference/warehouse-profiles/bigquery-profile.md b/website/docs/reference/warehouse-profiles/bigquery-profile.md
index a85017c4d65..60a87ec2af8 100644
--- a/website/docs/reference/warehouse-profiles/bigquery-profile.md
+++ b/website/docs/reference/warehouse-profiles/bigquery-profile.md
@@ -215,6 +215,54 @@ Database Error in model debug_table (models/debug_table.sql)
   compiled SQL at target/run/bq_project/models/debug_table.sql
 ```
 
+### Service Account Impersonation
+<Changelog>New in v0.18.0</Changelog>
+You may want your models to be built using a dedicated service account that has
+elevated access to read or write data to the specified project or dataset.
+Typically, this requires you to create a service account key for running under
+development or on your CI server. By specifing the email address of the service
+account you want to build models as, you can use [Application Default Credentials](
+https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/auth/application-default) or the
+service's configured service account (when running in GCP) to assume the identity
+of the service account with elevated permissions.
+
+This allows you to reap the advantages of using federated identity for developers
+(via ADC) without needing to grant individual access to read and write data
+directly, and without needing to create separate service account and keys for
+each user. It also allows you to completely eliminate the need for service
+account keys in CI as long as your CI is running on GCP (Cloud Build, Jenkins,
+GitLab/Github Runners, etc).
+
+To use this functionality, first create the service account you want to
+impersonate. Then grant users that you want to be able to impersonate
+this service account the `roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator` role on
+the service account resource. Then, you also need to grant the service
+account the same role on itself. This allows it to create short-lived
+tokens identifying itself, and allows your human users (or other service
+accounts) to do the same. More information on this scenario is available
+[here](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts#directly_impersonating_a_service_account).
+
+Once you've granted the appropriate permissions, you'll need to enable
+the [IAM Service Account Credentials API](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/iamcredentials.googleapis.com).
+Enabling the API and granting the role are eventually consistent operations,
+taking up to 7 minutes to fully complete, but usually fully propagating within 60
+seconds. Give it a few minutes, then add the `impersonate_service_account`
+option to your BigQuery profile configuration:
+
+```yaml
+my-profile:
+  target: dev
+  outputs:
+    dev:
+      type: bigquery
+      method: oauth
+      project: abc-123
+      dataset: my_dataset
+      impersonate_service_account: dbt-runner@yourproject.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+```
+
+For a general overview of this process, see the official docs for [Creating Short-lived Service Account Credentials](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-short-lived-service-account-credentials).
+
 ## Required permissions
 
 BigQuery's permission model is dissimilar from more conventional databases like Snowflake and Redshift. The following permissions are required for dbt user accounts: