Born in Carinthia, Simone Wohinz studied commercial sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, where she graduated with a degree in social and economic sciences in 1994. in 1995, she began her professional career at Vereinigte Bühnen Wien in the field of controlling and project management. The following year, she moved to DMC Design for Media and Communications GmbH & Co KG, Vienna & Hamburg, where she was Head of Controlling and Accounting. In 1999, she was a member of the "spin-off" project team of the designated commercial management of the Bundestheater Group, after which she headed Group Controlling, Accounting and Public Relations at Bundestheater-Holding, Vienna, until 2005.
In the course of the spin-off of the ballet, Simone Wohinz was appointed Commercial Director of the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper in 2005, which was renamed the Vienna State Ballet in 2010. In this function, she has since acted as authorized representative of Wiener Staatsoper GmbH and Volksoper Wien GmbH. From January to June 2020, she was also interim Director of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy, and since September 2020 she has also been Commercial Director of this institution. Simone Wohinz is also a founding member of the Dance Europe Network and has been a member of the Dance Steering Committee of Opera Europa since 2023.