From 2020 until 2024, she served as state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in the Second Kurz, Schallenberg, and Nehammer governments, nominated by the Greens.

[1][2] Born in Amstetten, Lower Austria, Mayer studied German and history as well as jurisprudence at the University of Vienna and graduated with the academic degree Magistra.

In 2015, following an advertisement, she prevailed against 17 applicants for the management of the now merged Art and Culture Section and was appointed to this position by Chancellery Minister Josef Ostermayer.

She took on control functions in various supervisory bodies of large cultural institutions, such as the Salzburg Festival, and in 2016 she was interim head of the Belvedere Board of Trustees.

In February 2017, she was appointed, the first woman in this position, by Alexander Van der Bellen as head of cabinet in the presidential office.