Performance Psychologist

Red Bull; Salzburg; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Bull is seeking a mental performance professional to integrate elite cognitive and affective assessment strategies within its athlete development program. The role emphasizes designing and implementing multi-dimensional mental assessments, profiling individual strengths and areas for improvement, and translating results into tailored actions to enhance performance under pressure.

You will work closely with coaching staff, sport science experts, physiotherapists and external partners to

Responsibilities

• Analyze key cognitive and affective action-regulation processes.
• Apply mental profiling methods to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
• Translate performance and behaviour control outcomes into specific action scenarios to enhance performance under pressure.
• Coordinate mental performance support with existing support structures.
• Collaborate with coaching staff, sport science experts, and physiotherapists to integrate mental performance strategies into training and competition.
• Foster relationships with external partners in technology and research to strengthen knowledge transfer and practical application of insights.
• Continuously explore, experiment, and align mental performance approaches across a global high-performance ecosystem.

Job description

The APC is RedBull’s athlete high-performance accelerator enabling and empowering world-class RedBull athletes to unveil their full potential, achieve sustained excellence and become truly outstanding performers within a highly innovative environment and a powerful global network of outstanding specialists. This role gives an emphasis on the design and implementation of multi-dimensional mental assessments, fostering and monitoring behavioral strategies, delivery of tailored mental training, and coordination of mental support to create a competitive advantage for RedBull elite athletes.

Your responsibilities include analyzing key cognitive and affective action-regulation processes, applying mental profiling methods to identify individual strengths and areas for improvement, and translating performance and behaviour control outcomes into specific action situations, for example to enhance performance under pressure.

Another important part of your role is coordinating mental performance support in alignment with existing support structures.

You work closely with coaching staff, physical performance and sport science experts, as well as physiotherapists, to ensure that mental performance strategies are integrated into training and can be applied seamlessly in competition environments.

In addition, you foster relationships and collaboration with external partners in the areas of technological advancement and research to strengthen knowledge transfer, innovation, and the practical application of insights.

A crucial aspect of this role is your commitment to continuous exploration, experimentation, innovation, and alignment of mental performance approaches. In doing so, you help shape and align cutting-edge mental performance methodologies across a global high-performance ecosystem and sports performance projects.