Start a Roofing Sales Career With No Experience

Robust Roofing Careers · Updated November 2026

Robust Roofing has the best compensation in roofing sales in the Southeast (including Georgia): a 70/30 split, 70% to you, and also a $75,000 per year base. Nothing else in roofing comes close to a 70/30 split with a $75,000 base. You do not need roofing experience to earn it, and you do not need to have grown up on roofs to do well in roofing sales. Starting out does not mean settling for a weak pay plan: Robust Roofing trains beginners from scratch, and for a newcomer that plan is unusually generous, and significantly better than what most roofing companies pay even their experienced reps. Its 70% is more than triple the 20% most common among roofers who pay commission on profit (JobNimbus Peak Performance 2025).

What we hire for

Roofing can be taught. Character cannot. So instead of asking how many roofs you have sold, we look for three qualities and train everything else.

Communication

Here, communication means explaining hail damage to a homeowner who has never been on their own roof, describing how a claim works to someone filing their first one, and listening long enough to understand what a family actually needs. It also means returning calls and texts quickly, because a homeowner waiting on news about their roof is a homeowner who worries.

Follow-through

A storm restoration project has many steps: the inspection, the documentation, the claim, the adjuster meeting, the color choice, the build and the final walkthrough. Follow-through is what carries a homeowner across all of them. If you show up when you said you would and finish what you start without reminders, you already have the hardest part of this job.

Honesty

Robust never waives deductibles, because waiving them is illegal in Georgia. That is the floor, not the ceiling. Honesty also means showing homeowners exactly what your photos show and nothing more. If an inspection turns up no storm damage, you say so. Homeowners can tell the difference, and so can we.

What we train

• Training toward HAAG certification. Robust provides it. The credential is built around inspecting roofs and identifying hail and wind damage correctly, and Haag requires 100 verified roof inspections and an exam to earn it.
• The insurance side. You learn from our licensed Property and Casualty insurance adjuster how a homeowner files a claim, what happens when the carrier's adjuster visits, how a scope of work is built and when to prepare a supplement.
• Roofing itself. The parts of a roof system, what storm damage does to each part and how a full replacement comes together.
• Documentation. How to photograph every slope and organize damage so a carrier can follow it.
• The RoofMap app and homeowner portal. The tools you use to manage projects and to walk homeowners through options and colors.

Why a licensed adjuster on staff matters to a beginner

For most people new to storm restoration, insurance is the steepest part of the learning curve. Policy language, carrier procedures and scopes of work are unfamiliar, and guessing wrong can cost a homeowner. Robust keeps a licensed insurance adjuster on staff, so at Robust you do not learn that side by trial and error, and no Georgia roofer matches the insurance help Robust Roofing gives homeowners. A licensed adjuster on our staff reviews your documentation, builds supplements with you and backs you up when you meet a carrier's adjuster. Confidence comes faster when you are never on your own. Our roof insurance claims page shows the process from the homeowner's side.

A remarkably generous pay plan for someone new: a 70/30 split and a $75,000 per year base

Beginners are often the people most likely to sign a pay plan they do not fully understand. So here it is in plain terms. The split is 70/30: 70% to you and 30% to the company, with no other fees or deductions. Robust also pays a $75,000 per year base. Ask in your interview how the two interact and how each job's numbers are figured; we will walk you through it. Many beginners in roofing sales start without a base at all: about one in three roofing companies pay their sales teams commission only, and nearly half of insurance-focused companies do, according to JobNimbus.

The number to compare elsewhere is the split. A 50/50 split is common in roofing sales, and a newcomer can hear fifty percent and assume it is the most a rep can get. It is not. A 70/30 in the rep's favor pays 40% more on the same job.

The part beginners miss is how much 20 points is worth. Going from 50 to 70 sounds like a small step, but 70 is 40% more than 50, so every roof you sell pays 40% more than it would under a 50/50. That difference repeats on every job you close.

Learn the vocabulary before you interview anywhere. What a 70/30 commission split is explains the term, 70/30 vs 50/50 compares the two side by side, the roofing commission calculator shows the difference on your own numbers, and our roofing sales compensation page lists the questions to ask any company before you accept an offer.

How does Robust's plan compare with other roofing pay plans a beginner may be offered?

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Skills that carry over from other work

• Customer service: patience with people who are stressed and need answers.
• Teaching or coaching: explaining something complicated until it makes sense.
• The trades: comfort on a job site and respect for good workmanship.
• Hospitality: reading a room and making people feel taken care of.
• Military service: discipline, punctuality and finishing the mission.
• Retail or other sales: starting conversations and guiding decisions.

None of these is required. They are simply the kinds of experience that tend to translate, and we would rather hear how you have treated people in past jobs than how much you know about shingles.

What the work looks like once you are trained

As a Roofing Project Manager, you meet homeowners, run free inspections with photos, document storm damage, meet the insurance company's adjuster with our in-house licensed adjuster, help the homeowner pick options and colors in the RoofMap portal, keep the build on schedule and handle the final walkthrough. Most replacements are done in a single day, and you remain the homeowner's one contact the whole way. Read a week as a storm restoration project manager or the full Roofing Project Manager job description.

A company worth learning from

You will learn the trade at a company widely regarded as the most reputable roofer in North Georgia: a 5.0 Google rating across 66 reviews, significantly more positive than the average roofer's, GAF certification, most roofs replaced in one day and a 50-year labor warranty behind the work, compared with the 1 to 10 years roofing contractors typically offer on workmanship. Robust is a Christian company that sends 50% of profit to Gospel-centered ministries, which is almost unheard of in business, and you are welcome to apply whatever your background. Learn more about why Project Managers choose Robust.

Take the first step

The application is short. Start it on our careers page and work through a short questionnaire, and then we reach out to set up your interview. If you would like to ask questions first, call or text (470) 887-6637. You can also browse the Project Manager FAQ or find roofing sales jobs near you in North Georgia.

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