Performance Psychologist

Drives the Sport-Performance Psychology domain within Red Bull's APC in Salzburg, with alignment to the Mental Performance team in Los Angeles. It focuses on designing and implementing multi-dimensional mental assessments, fostering and monitoring behavioural strategies, delivering tailored mental training, and coordinating mental performance support to create a competitive advantage for Red Bull elite athletes. The position works closely with coaching staff, physical performance and sport science experts, physiotherapists, and external partners in technology and research.

• Drive the Sport-Performance Psychology domain in the APC and align it with the Mental Performance team in LA across strategic, developmental, methodological, organisational, and knowledge management aspects, fostering the domain's development and harmonising priorities, methodological strategies
• Organisational processes, and knowledge management to enrich Red Bull's global high-performance ecosystem.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of athletes' mental performance capabilities, including mental skills, executive functioning, cognitive and affective processes, self-regulation techniques, mental robustness, stress and coping style, performance mindset, and behavioural performance routines.
• Analyse key cognitive and affective action-regulation processes, apply mental profiling methods to identify individual strengths and areas for improvement, and translate performance and behaviour control outcomes into specific action situations, such as enhancing performance under pressure.
• Compile efficient individualised intervention strategies comprising advanced mental skills training and performance rehearsal, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies including immersive virtual environments, mental simulation, neurocognitive conditioning
• And other innovative performance enhancement tools to optimise execution, adaptability, and performance under pressure.
• Coordinate mental performance support in alignment with existing support structures and work closely with coaching staff, physical performance and sport science experts
• And physiotherapists to ensure mental performance strategies are integrated into training and can be applied seamlessly in competition environments.
• Design, organise, and provide knowledge transfer initiatives for athletes and multidisciplinary support teams through both on-site and remote formats, and contribute to the evolution of the APC knowledge management system by developing educational resources, applied methodologies
• And best-practice content.
• Cultivate relationships and collaboration with external partners in technological advancement and research to strengthen knowledge transfer, innovation, and the practical application of insights.
• Work closely with the global Mental Performance team to champion the continuous development, implementation, and harmonisation of mental performance philosophies, methodologies, and intervention strategies across Red Bull's sports performance projects
• Ensuring consistency while fostering innovation and excellence.
• Establish and coordinate a trusted network of qualified mental health professionals, ensuring appropriate referral pathways and integrated psychological care.
• Commit to continuous exploration, experimentation, innovation, and alignment of mental performance approaches, helping shape and align cutting-edge mental performance methodologies across a global high-performance ecosystem and sports performance projects.

• Master's degree (or higher) in Sport Psychology/Performance Psychology or a related field.
• Extensive experience working with elite athletes across individual and team sports (7+ years).
• Exceptional experience and proven track record in individual and team consultations of international athletes from a variety of sports within the field of mental performance or sport psychology.
• Proven experience in the coordination of a team of mental performance experts and specialists in performance behaviour and lifestyle, as well as external collaborations in this field.
• Experience in working effectively within interdisciplinary performance environments.
• Crucial knowledge in action-regulation concepts, with an emphasis on motor-behaviour performance and performance-behaviour control in sports.
• Strong understanding of the organisational structure and key processes in high-performance sport and elite athlete demands in a broad range of sports and competitive situations.
• Knowledge in the design, application, and interpretation of multi-dimensional, multi-method assessment strategies, including relevant tests and diagnostic tools, in particular in terms of sport-specific situations and demands.
• Ability to translate theory and empirical-based insights into applicable strategies in specific practical situations in sports, in particular in competitive situations.
• Strong communication, inter-personal skills, analytical competencies, and cooperative organisational behaviour.
• Knowledge and competencies for the development and delivery of mental performance strategies for peak performance.
• Curiosity for, good understanding and basic experience with new technologies.
• Interest in exploration and innovation in performance environments.
• High level of English proficiency (written and verbal).

• Personal experience as an athlete or coach in competitive/elite sports.
• German and/or additional languages.

• APC in Salzburg, with alignment to the Mental Performance team in Los Angeles.