Entry-Level Business Development Associate
Full Time • Bethesda
Benefits:
- Bonus based on performance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Profit sharing
Learn Sales, Territory Management, and Small Business Operations
Surface Experts of Bethesda
Perfect for recent graduates, former athletes, or anyone early in their career who wants to learn sales and business development.
At Surface Experts of Bethesda, we’re building a small, fast-growing service business that helps apartment communities repair damage to things like countertops, cabinets, tubs, and floors—without replacing them.
This role is not a call-center sales job. You’ll be out in the field building relationships with property managers, learning how service businesses grow, and seeing how sales, operations, and customer service work together.
Think of it as a paid apprenticeship in business development.
If you’re curious, hardworking, and coachable, we will teach you everything else.
Learn more about Surface Experts
What You’ll Learn
In this role you will develop skills that translate into almost any future career:
• Professional sales and relationship building
• Customer discovery and asking great questions
• Territory management and route planning
• Negotiation and problem solving
• Small-business operations
• Personal accountability and performance management
• Customer discovery and asking great questions
• Territory management and route planning
• Negotiation and problem solving
• Small-business operations
• Personal accountability and performance management
Many people spend years trying to learn these skills in an office.
You will learn them in the field, quickly, with direct coaching.
You will learn them in the field, quickly, with direct coaching.
What the Job Looks Like
Each day you will visit 12–15 apartment communities in Montgomery County and introduce our repair services to maintenance managers.
Your goal is to:
• Build relationships with property managers and maintenance teams
• Walk vacant units to identify repair opportunities
• Schedule repairs for our technician team
• Follow up with customers and ensure great service
• Walk vacant units to identify repair opportunities
• Schedule repairs for our technician team
• Follow up with customers and ensure great service
You’ll spend most of your day out meeting people, not sitting behind a desk.
Why This Job is Different
Autonomy
You manage your own route and schedule.
You manage your own route and schedule.
Real Responsibility
You directly impact the growth of the business.
You directly impact the growth of the business.
Direct Coaching
You will work closely with the owner and receive weekly coaching.
You will work closely with the owner and receive weekly coaching.
Small Team Environment
You’ll be part of a tight-knit team where your ideas matter.
You’ll be part of a tight-knit team where your ideas matter.
No Nights or Weekends
Business hours only.
Business hours only.
Who This Role is Perfect For
This is a great opportunity for someone who:
• Recently graduated from college
• Played sports or worked in restaurants/hospitality
• Is curious about business or entrepreneurship
• Wants to learn sales and customer leadership
• Enjoys meeting people face-to-face
• Played sports or worked in restaurants/hospitality
• Is curious about business or entrepreneurship
• Wants to learn sales and customer leadership
• Enjoys meeting people face-to-face
No prior sales experience required.
We will train the right person.
What Matters Most
We care more about attributes than experience.
You might be a great fit if you are:
Coachable
You want feedback and actively work to improve.
You want feedback and actively work to improve.
Curious
You enjoy asking questions and learning how things work.
You enjoy asking questions and learning how things work.
Accountable
You take ownership of results and follow through.
You take ownership of results and follow through.
Energetic
You enjoy being out in the field meeting people.
You enjoy being out in the field meeting people.
Compensation and Benefits
• Base salary + commission + performance bonuses
• Paid holidays and PTO
• Healthcare / wellness stipend
• Mileage reimbursement
• Phone stipend
• Paid holidays and PTO
• Healthcare / wellness stipend
• Mileage reimbursement
• Phone stipend
Top performers in this role develop skills that lead to future opportunities in sales, operations, or business leadership.
About Surface Experts
Surface Experts repairs small damage to surfaces like countertops, cabinets, tubs, floors, and appliances for apartment communities and property managers.
Instead of replacing expensive materials, we restore them—saving customers time and money while reducing waste.
We’re a growing local business backed by a national franchise network that provides training, tools, and operational support.
If This Sounds Like You
We’re looking for someone who wants to learn, grow, and build something meaningful with a small team.
Apply if you’re ready to develop real-world business skills and take ownership of your work.
Compensation: $48,000.00 - $96,000.00 per year
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
This franchise is independently owned and operated by a franchisee. Your application will go directly to the franchisee, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this franchisee. All inquiries about employment at this franchisee should be made directly to the franchise location, and not to Surface Experts Corporate.
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Paid Training
Competitive Compensation with Bonus Potential
Paid Time Off