# Skill Acquisition Coach

**Company**: Red Bull
**Location**: Santa Monica, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: Sports
**Industry**: Sports

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## Description

The Skill Acquisition Coach is responsible for designing and delivering training environments and interventions that optimise how athletes learn, adapt, and perform.

This role bridges the gap between training and in-field performance by applying the science of motor learning and skill acquisition to performance problem-solving.

The Skill Acquisition Coach will partner directly with coaches, athletes, and Athlete Performance Centre staff to embed motor learning principles into daily practice, co-designing sessions that improve skill transfer, decision-making, and execution under competitive conditions.

**Responsibilities**

- **Reverse Engineering Performance**

- Analyse sport demands and define what drives success based on key technical and perceptual constraints.

- Identify bottlenecks to the expression of sport-specific skills.

- Translate insights into targeted practice interventions based on principles of motor learning and skill acquisition.

- **Hands-on Performance Delivery**

- Embed within individual training, team practice, and gym-based training environments to build trust, identify opportunities, and accelerate integration.

- Design and co-deliver training environments using constraints-led approaches, variable and adaptive practice structures, and decision-rich environments.

- Optimise movement efficiency in context, decision-making under pressure, and skill transfer to competition.

- **Interdisciplinary Collaboration**

- Integrate motor learning principles into strength and conditioning, performance science, rehab, and mental performance.

- Contribute sport-specific skill acquisition perspective into athlete needs analysis and prioritisation process to strengthen the link back to performance outcomes.

- **Skill Acquisition Program Development**

- Develop frameworks for practical integration of skill acquisition into training environments across core sports programs and corporate projects.

- Educate coaches on motor learning principles, practice design, and skill transfer strategies.

**Requirements**

- Undergraduate and Master's degree in sports science or related field (emphasis on motor learning and skill acquisition).

- 5+ years of experience in applied performance/coaching environments.

- Proven track record for successful integration of motor learning, skill acquisition, and practice design interventions in applied performance environments.

- Credentials and experience in strength and conditioning (CSCS or equivalent preferred).

**Travel**: 30-40% **Benefits**: Eligible

## Skills

### Required
- motor learning
- skill acquisition
- sports science
- strength and conditioning
- performance analysis

### Nice to have
- CSCS
- applied performance
- coaching

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