Director, Business Operations

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:

Are you looking for a career path that combines strategy, analytics, operational practices and business insights? Strategic Business Operations provides strategic, tactical, financial, operational, analytical, and team management support for a wide variety of business planning and operations functions for the Global Markets Organization. The position requires a seasoned professional with significant relevant experience, a broad well-rounded set of skills, a high level of energy, flexibility, perpetual enthusiasm to learn new skills and take on new responsibilities, and a demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. If you are highly skilled at leadership communication and collaborating across organizations as well as a fast learner with a can-do attitude, we would like to talk with you.

Job Description:

Summary:

Are you looking for a career path that combines strategy, analytics, operational practices and business insights? Strategic Business Operations provides strategic, tactical, financial, operational, analytical, and team management support for a wide variety of business planning and operations functions for the Sales Organization. The position requires a seasoned professional with significant relevant experience, a broad well-rounded set of skills, a high level of energy, flexibility, perpetual enthusiasm to learn new skills and take on new responsibilities, and a demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. If you are highly skilled at leadership communication and collaborating across organizations as well as a fast learner with a can-do attitude, we would like to talk with you.

Background:

We are the central business operations team for the Sales Organization, working with the top sales executives and key sales leaders in the organization that ensures smooth ongoing business operations while look forward and enable the next wave of growth. We partner with Marketing and Product teams to collaborate end-to-end on what is best for our customer as well as working very closely with corporate teams like Finance, Analytics and HR to optimize operations. This is a role with enormous diversity, complexity and is full of intellectual challenges. It will require superb mental agility with the scope for enormous value creation. The Payments and Fin Tech Industry is one of the highest growth, most competitive industries right now and PayPal has a very strong position (but also an incredibly impressive set of aggressive competitors). This is an opportunity for someone who loves a challenge, wants to be stretched, who plays to win and plays as part of a team.

You will be a thought partner to the sales leadership team. You will work with Sales and partner teams to understand challenges, discover insights and implement solutions required to manage and grow our business. You are deeply curious and persistent in gaining knowledge about our sales processes, products and go-to-market strategy.

Requirements:

• Lead strategic initiatives central to the sales organization across segments
• Execute Chief of Staff responsibilities for senior Sales Leader
• Support the production of the Enterprise, Partner and Business Operating Reviews to CEO and SLT
• Create, manage, and maintain specific communications and cadence for All Hands meetings, Exec meetings, team meetings, ongoing communications
• Create opportunities for synergies across the business on topics such as developing business models, organizational design and cross-functional initiatives to drive long term business results
• Build productive relationships across the organization at all levels to drive influence
• Utilize frameworks to help structure the team’s thinking, drive visibility, and facilitate alignment
• Deliver excellent written, presentation and verbal communication up to the senior executive level
• Work independently, deal with ambiguity, and meet deadlines in a fast-moving environment focused on results
• Highly accountable, with ability to independently lead and coordinate complex projects across multiple subject areas
• Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making within senior-level audiences
• Operate in a highly complex cross-functional matrixes organization structure to drive direction, decision making, and priorities
• Proactive, resourceful, and demonstrate intellectual curiosity to anticipate business needs
• Exhibit the highest