Door-to-Door Field Marketing Representative
About Maple City Painters
At Maple City Painters, we believe painting is simply the vehicle.
What we're really building is a team of ambitious people who want to grow personally, professionally, and financially.
We're creating a culture where hard work is rewarded, coaching is constant, and performance creates opportunity. Whether you're looking to earn great money while staying active or build a long-term career in sales and leadership, we'll give you the systems, mentorship, and support to get there.
We're a fast-paced, data-driven painting company serving homeowners throughout Ottawa. Every day, we help homeowners improve and protect one of their biggest investments while developing future leaders within our own company.
Why Join Our Team?
✔ Flexible scheduling (minimum 10 hours per week)
✔ Stay active instead of sitting behind a desk
✔ Explore beautiful neighbourhoods
✔ Performance bonuses
✔ Clear opportunities for advancement
✔ Coaching and mentorship
✔ Work with a supportive, competitive team
✔ Opportunity to grow into a Sales Representative / Project Specialist role
✔ Build valuable skills in communication, sales, leadership, and business
The Role
As a Field Marketing Representative (FMR), your primary responsibility is generating painting estimates by speaking with homeowners in targeted neighbourhoods throughout Ottawa.
You'll follow our proven system while learning valuable sales and communication skills that can be applied throughout your career.
This position is ideal for someone who enjoys meeting new people, being outdoors, challenging themselves, and seeing a direct connection between effort and income.
This is an outdoor position. You should be comfortable working outdoors in rain, sunshine, heat, and light snow (when safe). Some of our best-performing days happen when other people decide to stay home.
What You'll Be Doing
- Canvassing assigned neighbourhoods
- Starting conversations with homeowners
- Booking qualified painting estimates
- Educating homeowners about our services
- Recording appointments accurately
- Tracking daily activity and performance
- Working toward individual and team goals
- Representing Maple City Painters professionally at all times
What We're Looking For
We're looking for people with energy, not necessarily experience.
You'll likely succeed if you:
- Enjoy talking with people
- Stay positive after hearing "no"
- Have a strong work ethic
- Are coachable
- Like setting goals
- Take pride in representing yourself professionally
- Want to continuously improve
Sales experience is an asset, but not required.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfortable speaking with strangers
- Reliable transportation is an asset
- Familiarity with Ottawa is an asset
- Bilingual (English/French) is an asset
- Google Sheets experience is an asset
- Real estate or home improvement knowledge is an asset
Work Conditions
- Outdoor position with extensive walking throughout each shift
- Comfortable walking several kilometres each day
- Able to work in varying weather conditions when safe
- Typical shifts are 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM, when homeowners are most likely to be home and available to chat
- Occasional weekends may be required
Growth Opportunities
Our goal is to promote from within.
Top-performing Field Marketing Representatives are trained to become:
- Sales Representatives / Project Specialists
- Field Marketing Managers
- Team Leaders
- Future department managers
As you grow, you'll have opportunities to recruit, train, and lead your own team while significantly increasing your earning potential.
What Success Looks Like
Success isn't measured by knocking on the most doors.
It's measured by consistently:
- Starting conversations
- Learning from coaching
- Following the system
- Booking qualified estimates
- Improving each week
We track performance because data helps us coach, not because we micromanage.
Compensation
- Competitive hourly wage
- Performance bonuses for qualified estimates
- Weekly incentive bonuses
- Advancement opportunities based on performance
The harder and smarter you work, the more you'll earn.
Who Thrives In This Role?
This role is perfect for people who enjoy being active, talking to others, and challenging themselves every day.
Many of our strongest candidates come from backgrounds such as:
- Athletics and competitive sports
- Serving or bartending
- Customer service
- Landscaping or outdoor labour
- Personal training or fitness
- Charity fundraising
- Acting, theatre, or drama programs
- Brand ambassadors or promotional marketing
- Hospitality
- Retail sales
If you enjoy meeting new people, staying active, receiving coaching, and seeing your hard work directly impact your income, you'll likely do very well here.
Why People Stay Here
Most companies hire door-to-door reps.
We're building future sales professionals, leaders, and businesspeople.
If you're looking for a place where you'll be coached, challenged, rewarded for your effort, and given real opportunities to grow, we'd love to meet you.
Pay: $18.00-$40.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Flexible schedule
Work Location: In person
