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Technical Writer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under USMCA, covering documentation specialists, content developers, and instructional designers who hold a relevant bachelor's degree. Canadian citizens can apply at the border with same-day approval; Mexican citizens enter through consular processing. Employers file no I-129 petition and face no lottery.
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We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!
About Topsort
At Topsort, we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech, friendly products, and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive, intelligent, and genuinely cool, without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well, maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry, we're on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesn't leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed.
Today, Topsort has 6 major hubs worldwide, and employees in 13+ countries, including Menlo Park, Boston, Santiago Chile, Sao Paulo Brazil, Barcelona Spain, and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic that's had rapid growth since out of a genius product, a customer-first mentality, and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021, we've gained customers in retail, marketplaces, and delivery apps in 40+ countries and quickly approaching the #1 position in the industry.
Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment? Do you like seeing your work create real-time impact, being part of a rocket ship from the very beginning? Let's do the unimaginable - let's make ads clean and cool again, with AI and modern technology.
Why Topsort? Why now?
Topsort is changing the way Retail Media works. By joining our scaling team, you'll feel your impact from day 1. The processes and messaging you build today will be a critical part of our foundation as we accelerate toward 200 Topsorters worldwide, and your innovations will leave a lasting mark on the industry, as a whole. Retail Media is on the verge of a new era, and Topsort is gathering the ecosystem together to shape a brighter future. Joining us now, you'll work directly alongside our co-founders and founding members to bring on Retail Media 3.0. If you're looking to define your career as something greater than yourself, come scale with us.
What it's like to work at Topsort
Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It's a sports team that's hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here – if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a motivated, experienced, and creative Technical Writer to join our growing Engineering team in the US! As a spokesperson for Topsort's products, you'll turn complex concepts into engaging, visually appealing narratives. We want someone with a strong aesthetic sense and a creative mindset who can craft compelling stories that make our technology both accessible and exciting.
If you love storytelling and translating tech into impact, we'd love to hear from you!
- Craft Engaging Documentation – Develop, refine, and maintain user guides, API documentation, and onboarding materials that make complex ideas easy to grasp.
- Turn complex technical concepts into clear, engaging, and intuitive documentation for developers, customers, and internal teams.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Solutions teams to deeply understand new features and translate them into high-quality documentation.
- Build and maintain documentation that evolves alongside the product, ensuring accuracy as features and APIs change.
- Improve the overall developer experience by identifying documentation gaps, collecting user feedback, and continuously refining content.
- Establish documentation standards, templates, and best practices that scale with the company.
- Use visuals, diagrams, code examples, and modern documentation techniques to make technical concepts easier to understand.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another STEM-related field.
- 2+ years of experience as a Technical Writer supporting software products, APIs, developer platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in a simple, structured, and engaging way.
- Comfortable reading technical documentation, APIs, JSON, and working closely with engineers to understand how products work.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy across a rapidly evolving product.
- Experience using modern documentation platforms such as Markdown, Git, GitHub, CMS platforms, Notion, Confluence, or similar tools.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple documentation projects simultaneously.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup where priorities evolve and documentation often needs to be built from scratch.
- Strong collaboration skills and confidence working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Design, and Customer-facing teams.
What We Value
At Topsort, we seek professionals who embody the following qualities to drive our mission forward:
- Deep dive into details: Professionals who are not content with superficial answers and dive deeply into the details to uncover root causes and optimal solutions.
- Team first: A low need for individual recognition, always prioritizing collective results over personal credit.
- You thrive with ambiguity: Exceptional ability to tackle open-ended problems in unstructured environments, turning chaos into structured innovation.
- Adaptability: Willingness to learn, mentor, lead, and follow as the situation demands, fostering growth at all levels.
- Urgency: A disproportionate sense of urgency in execution, while keeping scalability and the creation of replicable processes in mind to ensure long-term success.
- Curiosity: Genuinely curious individuals who can quickly learn difficult concepts and apply them effectively.
Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!
INTRODUCTION
We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!
About Topsort
At Topsort, we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech, friendly products, and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive, intelligent, and genuinely cool, without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well, maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry, we're on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesn't leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed.
Today, Topsort has 6 major hubs worldwide, and employees in 13+ countries, including Menlo Park, Boston, Santiago Chile, Sao Paulo Brazil, Barcelona Spain, and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic that's had rapid growth since out of a genius product, a customer-first mentality, and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021, we've gained customers in retail, marketplaces, and delivery apps in 40+ countries and quickly approaching the #1 position in the industry.
Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment? Do you like seeing your work create real-time impact, being part of a rocket ship from the very beginning? Let's do the unimaginable - let's make ads clean and cool again, with AI and modern technology.
Why Topsort? Why now?
Topsort is changing the way Retail Media works. By joining our scaling team, you'll feel your impact from day 1. The processes and messaging you build today will be a critical part of our foundation as we accelerate toward 200 Topsorters worldwide, and your innovations will leave a lasting mark on the industry, as a whole. Retail Media is on the verge of a new era, and Topsort is gathering the ecosystem together to shape a brighter future. Joining us now, you'll work directly alongside our co-founders and founding members to bring on Retail Media 3.0. If you're looking to define your career as something greater than yourself, come scale with us.
What it's like to work at Topsort
Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It's a sports team that's hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here – if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a motivated, experienced, and creative Technical Writer to join our growing Engineering team in the US! As a spokesperson for Topsort's products, you'll turn complex concepts into engaging, visually appealing narratives. We want someone with a strong aesthetic sense and a creative mindset who can craft compelling stories that make our technology both accessible and exciting.
If you love storytelling and translating tech into impact, we'd love to hear from you!
- Craft Engaging Documentation – Develop, refine, and maintain user guides, API documentation, and onboarding materials that make complex ideas easy to grasp.
- Turn complex technical concepts into clear, engaging, and intuitive documentation for developers, customers, and internal teams.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Solutions teams to deeply understand new features and translate them into high-quality documentation.
- Build and maintain documentation that evolves alongside the product, ensuring accuracy as features and APIs change.
- Improve the overall developer experience by identifying documentation gaps, collecting user feedback, and continuously refining content.
- Establish documentation standards, templates, and best practices that scale with the company.
- Use visuals, diagrams, code examples, and modern documentation techniques to make technical concepts easier to understand.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another STEM-related field.
- 2+ years of experience as a Technical Writer supporting software products, APIs, developer platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in a simple, structured, and engaging way.
- Comfortable reading technical documentation, APIs, JSON, and working closely with engineers to understand how products work.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy across a rapidly evolving product.
- Experience using modern documentation platforms such as Markdown, Git, GitHub, CMS platforms, Notion, Confluence, or similar tools.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple documentation projects simultaneously.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup where priorities evolve and documentation often needs to be built from scratch.
- Strong collaboration skills and confidence working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Design, and Customer-facing teams.
What We Value
At Topsort, we seek professionals who embody the following qualities to drive our mission forward:
- Deep dive into details: Professionals who are not content with superficial answers and dive deeply into the details to uncover root causes and optimal solutions.
- Team first: A low need for individual recognition, always prioritizing collective results over personal credit.
- You thrive with ambiguity: Exceptional ability to tackle open-ended problems in unstructured environments, turning chaos into structured innovation.
- Adaptability: Willingness to learn, mentor, lead, and follow as the situation demands, fostering growth at all levels.
- Urgency: A disproportionate sense of urgency in execution, while keeping scalability and the creation of replicable processes in mind to ensure long-term success.
- Curiosity: Genuinely curious individuals who can quickly learn difficult concepts and apply them effectively.
Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Technical Writer
Match your degree field to the role
TN visa approval requires a direct connection between your bachelor's degree and Technical Writer duties. A degree in English, communications, journalism, or technical communication works cleanly. A computer science degree paired with documentation experience needs a stronger employer letter explaining the link.
Request a support letter before accepting
Ask your employer to draft the TN support letter before you sign an offer. It must name your specific job title, describe duties tied to technical writing, confirm the prearranged job, and state your salary and intended duration.
Target companies with active technical documentation needs
Software, aerospace, defense, and medical device companies maintain large documentation teams and routinely hire Technical Writers on TN status. Filter your search to industries where regulatory or compliance requirements create steady demand for structured technical content.
Use Migrate Mate to find employer-sponsored technical writer roles
Search Migrate Mate to identify Technical Writer openings at employers experienced with visa sponsorship. Targeting companies with recent work visa filings means hiring managers already understand employment-based immigration, so you'll spend less time explaining the TN process.
Clarify contract versus full-time status early
TN visas cover both direct employment and certain contract arrangements, but the employer of record must be the entity sponsoring you. If you're placed through a staffing agency, confirm which entity issues your support letter and controls your work assignments before the offer stage.
Prepare for Canadian border entry with a complete packet
Canadian citizens can obtain TN status at a port of entry without advance filing. Bring the signed employer support letter, your degree certificate, transcripts, and a copy of the job description. CBP officers can deny entry if documentation doesn't clearly establish specialty occupation.
Technical Writer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Technical Writer qualify for TN visa status?
Yes. Technical Writer appears on the USMCA TN occupational list. To qualify, you must hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as English, communications, technical communication, or a related discipline, and your employer must document that the position requires that level of specialized knowledge.
How does TN compare to H-1B for Technical Writer roles?
TN has no annual lottery, no cap for Canadian citizens, and no USCIS petition filing requirement. H-1B visa selection is random and limited to 85,000 slots per fiscal year. For Canadian Technical Writers, TN approval can happen the same day at a port of entry. Mexican citizens use consular processing, which takes longer but still avoids the lottery entirely.
Where can I find Technical Writer jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Canadian and Mexican professionals seeking TN-eligible roles. You can search for Technical Writer positions at employers who are familiar with TN sponsorship, which reduces friction during the hiring process and avoids offers that fall through when an employer learns they'd need to support a visa.
What documents does my employer need to provide for my TN application?
Your employer must provide a signed support letter on company letterhead that confirms your job title as Technical Writer, describes your specific duties, states that the position requires a bachelor's degree, confirms prearranged employment, and lists your compensation and intended period of employment. This letter is the core of your TN application whether you apply at the border or through a consulate.
Can I switch employers after getting TN status as a Technical Writer?
Yes, but you cannot start working for a new employer under your existing TN status. Canadian citizens must obtain a new TN at a port of entry with a new employer support letter. Mexican citizens must apply for a new TN at a U.S. consulate. Plan for a processing gap between your last day at the current employer and your start date at the new one.