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Hi! I've been a technical writer at several startups, all B2B SaaS, mostly mid-stage 200-400 employee companies. In two of them, I was the first writer hired.

I'm not surprised that HN Who's Hiring posts don't target us, because I don't feel like tech writers are really the audience here. Smaller startups might benefit from a dedicated tech writer, but the resources are harder to justify. Larger companies are either contracting maintenance of existing sets or already have established teams.

So it's often that sweet spot combo of a funding round, new product launches, and eng/R&D scale-up or M&A where a startup decides that they need one or more dedicated technical writers to clean up and reorganize existing content and make maintenance more scalable. It's a specific, fleeting moment of hiring the first 1-to-5 writers, after which new writer positions fill pretty quickly via referrals, intern-to-hire, direct recruitment, or internal transfers. (I've been hired though three of those.)

If you search LinkedIn you'll find a bunch of openings. Here's one at ServiceNow, first result in the list: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3422041216