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Head of Mental Performance

Red Bull · Salzburg, AT

Company Description The APC exists to accelerate athlete performance and create a competitive advantage for Red Bull athletes. As Head of Mental Performance,...

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Company Description The APC exists to accelerate athlete performance and create a competitive advantage for Red Bull athletes. As Head of Mental Performance, you lead and develop Mental Performance, ensuring it delivers impactful, practical support across Red Bull performance environments. You are responsible for identifying key mental performance factors, translating insights into actionable strategies, and working directly with athletes to improve resilience, self-regulation, mental fitness, mental health, and performance under pressure. A central part of the role is to coordinate and deliver mental performance support across athletes, teams, and projects, while aligning with existing support structures. You collaborate closely with coaching staff, performance staff, and the athlete health department to ensure mental performance, mental health, and mental fitness principles are applied in training and competition environments. You also establish and manage relationships with external partners across neuroscience, technology, research, and sport science to strengthen delivery and innovation. In this role, you drive the ongoing development and alignment of mental performance approa...