She attended Stanford University, where she double majored in American studies and drama with hopes of becoming an actress, before becoming disillusioned with the roles she was getting.
The script got the attention of Dan Fogelman, who had the same manager as Oliver at the time and soon hired her as a writer on ABC's comedy-science fiction series The Neighbors, which ran from 2012 to 2014.
Oliver then became a staff writer and story editor on the Starz comedy-drama television series Survivor's Remorse.
[4][2] Oliver partnered with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris to write the 2016 comedy film Barbershop: The Next Cut, starring Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer.
Oliver and Barris then co-wrote Girls Trip (2017), starring Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish.
Oliver serves as creator, writer, and executive producer of the Amazon Studios half-hour television series Harlem,[9] a single camera comedy starring Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Jerrie Johnson and Shoniqua Shandai.