Job Description
Job DescriptionBenefits:
- Medical Stipend
- Cellphone Stipend
- Free breakfast at weekly team meetings
- Paid holidays
- Bonus based on performance
- Competitive salary
- Paid time off
- Training & development
About the Opportunity
This is a field-based, relationship-driven sales role where your success comes from showing up consistently, building trust, and helping customers solve real problems they already care about.
Youll follow a planned daily route across the southwest suburbs of Minneapolis, meeting with property managers and facility teams who control repair decisions. Our service is simple, highly visual, and easy to stand behindonce people see the results, they tend to keep calling you back.
No prior sales experience is required. If you bring strong communication skills, reliability, and a willingness to learn, well train you to succeed.
A Day in the Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHpE--Kcjog
Compensation & Benefits
We believe strong performance should be well rewarded.
- $62,000$92,000 OTE (On-Target Earnings)
- Base salary + uncapped commission + bonuses
- Your base is guaranteed; your upside grows with your accounts
- Paid holidays + minimum 10 days PTO (increasing with tenure)
- Full-time schedule with predictable business hours
- No nights, no weekends
- Car stipend + medical, phone, and clothing stipends
- Structured onboarding + national training at Surface Experts HQ
- Weekly 1:1 coaching and ongoing sales development
- Dedicated support team for admin so you can stay focused on selling
- Weekly team meetings (with breakfast provided) + birthday lunch
What Your Day Looks Like
This is a structured, active field role - not a desk job.
- Start your morning by planning your route and reviewing follow-ups from the previous day
- Visit 1215 properties daily across areas like Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins, and St. Louis Park
- Walk into apartment communities, maintenance offices, and commercial properties to introduce yourself and build relationships
- Ask thoughtful questions to understand each propertys repair needs and priorities
- Follow up with contacts, keep your pipeline active, and turn early conversations into long-term accounts
- Log visits, notes, and next steps in our CRM system before wrapping up your day
- Attend a weekly team meeting to review wins, numbers, and coaching insights
What Makes You Successful Here
We dont require a sales background - we look for the right habits and mindset.
- People-oriented & confident Youre comfortable introducing yourself and building rapport quickly
- Consistent & dependable You show up, follow through, and do what you said youd do
- Coachable & eager to learn You follow a proven system and actively improve with feedback
- Naturally curious You ask questions to understand customers before offering solutions
- Detail-driven You log activity, track follow-ups, and manage your pipeline with care
- Self-managed You own your daily schedule and results within a structured route
Backgrounds That Translate Well
- Customer service or retail (you know how to communicate and handle people)
- Hospitality (you build rapport quickly and read situations well)
- Property management or real estate (you already understand our customers)
- Any role where consistency, communication, and accountability mattered
Requirements
- Valid drivers license and reliable personal vehicle
- Based in or near the southwest Twin Cities area
- Comfortable learning simple CRM and routing tools (training provided)
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Why Join Surface Experts
- Strong earning potential tied directly to performance
- A clear path to build a long-term career - not just a job
- Supportive, small-team culture where youre known and coached
- Real ownership of your territory and daily schedule
- A product and service people genuinely appreciate and re-use
Surface Experts Minneapolis Southwest is a locally owned, owner-operated business, not a corporate job where you're just a number. You'll work directly alongside the owner and a small team that knows your name, backed by the training and support of an established franchise network. Youll be part of a supportive, collaborative culture that values its people. We take pride in helping our team members grow, succeed, and feel appreciated for the work they do every day.
About Surface Experts
Surface Experts is an all-inclusive surface repair service provider. We repair small damage to surfaces like Floors, Countertops, Bathtubs, Cabinets, Appliances, Furniture, Elevator Panels Almost Everything! We pride ourselves in our ability to provide incredibly fast service, while maintaining a friendly and professional atmosphere in our support center and on jobsites. We combine old school skill sets with new technology and products, resulting in a durable and appealing repair all provided with a smile.
- Most repairs are simple and smaller than a dinner plate, yet our competition focuses on complete resurfacing. Our objective is a happy customer and a long-term relationship. We focus on saving our customers time, money and wasted materials that end up in a landfill.
- Our typical repair requires only 1 to 2 tablespoons of product so our technicians can carry their entire set of tools and equipment in a small vehicle. Our approach is clean and free of odors in less than two hours.
Our Mission
Our mission is to develop outstanding teams by investing in strong relationships. Together we work to solve our customers problems by reducing the waste of time, money and materials which end up in landfills.
Our Vision
To establish and lead a nationally recognized market for surface repair as an alternative to replacement or complete refinishing. Our goal is to be represented in every major metropolitan area, and for our brand to be synonymous with spot repair among all facilities and maintenance management.
Core Values
Serve Others
- Put Relationships First
- No Jerks
- Be Humble
Be a Problem Solver
- Be Curious
- Seek to Understand the Cause of the Problem
- Work Smart
- Constantly Improve
Trust the Process
- Be Organized
- Be Teachable
- Put Business Needs Above Personal Wants