Aysha Alvi

About Aysha Alvi

My passion is driving operational efficiencies across our organization and cross-functional partner teams. My role serves as the “connective tissue” within the organization to drive organization alignment in order to deliver upon our strategic objectives. We develop solutions for challenges without an existing playbook, evaluate business risk, and develop strategic processes enabling our organization to deliver against business goals.

Experience

1. Director, Strategy & Business Operations Common Platforms

   PayPal

   Oct 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Operating rhythms and routines: Manage operating routines that facilitate decision-making, autonomy, leadership alignment, and team engagement. • Drive strategic priorities for the organization, serving as the enterprise POC to drive organizational alignment, facilitate change management, bring outside-in thinking to the organization, highlighting industry trends that should be considered and evaluated. • Serve as the global COE lead for internal processes for our organization serving 3200+ employees to help the internal team and our partners operate efficiently across the following areas: workforce, budget management, 3rd party vendor engagement and optimization, geolocation strategy, partner engagement model. • Planning and Portfolio Management: Guide the strategic direction and support quarterly planning, resource allocation process, and standardization of annual planning across the internal and FP & A/HR partner teams. • Innovative process improvement and effectiveness: Identify gaps or improvements, designing proposed changes, and developing processes to drive business efficiencies.

Education

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program

  2017 — 2018

• Towson University

  Project Management