# How to hire your first technical writer

DevFeed: [How to hire your first technical writer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-hire-your-first-technical-writer-31027.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-to-hire-your-first-technical-write>)

Author: Emma Adler

Published: 2025-05-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Mintlify Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mintlify-blog.md>)

Topics: [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Support](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/support.md>)

Tags: [ai-trends](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-trends.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [guides](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guides.md>), [hiring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hiring.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>)

## AI overview

This guide explains when and how to hire a company's first technical writer. Drawing on experiences from technical writers, it emphasizes timely hiring, access to appropriate tools, candidates with initiative and curiosity, and support systems for maintaining useful documentation.

## Source excerpt

Hiring your first technical writer feels obvious in hindsight, but rarely in the moment. Founders know documentation is important. Teams start drowning in support questions. Engineers grumble about having to write. And then, usually after too much pain, someone says it out loud: we need a writer.