MEWSie SAUL HANSELL, the new head of content at AOL’s Seed, sends us word of several job openings.  He writes:

AOL’s Seed.com is soon going to hire several editors and an editorial assistant.

Seed, if you don’t know is AOL’s new site that reaches out to writers and photographers to invite them to work for AOL’s Web sites. Newly independent from Time Warner, AOL is focused on expanding its journalism. It already serves over 75 million users a month with 80 sites covering a wide range of topics, from Politics to Pets. Our editors post assignments on Seed, and freelance writers and photographers can choose assignments and get paid if we accept their work.

Do take a look at seed.com today to see what we are doing, but know also that we are rapidly expanding and changing the site’s features. The Seed blog offers some insight into our thinking.

We expect to start hiring for two editorial roles:

Seed Editors. These people will work with me to develop ideas for Seed assignments, work with AOL editors to use Seed well, and help review articles as they are submitted. Experience working with a wide range of freelance writers and stringers is important. So is a combination of high editorial standards and the creativity to use new technology and new procedures to create innovative journalism. Over time, they will help develop new sites that use Seed as well.

Seed Editorial Assistant. This is a spectacular job for someone just starting out in journalism who wants to be in the middle of reinventing the field. I need someone filled with ideas and curiosity, with writing and editing skill, fluent in the Internet, comfortable with numbers and spreadsheets, to help expand Seed and the new sites we build using it. AOL, with 80 sites and a growing staff of 500 full time journalists is among the best places for someone to build a career for the future.

These full-time jobs are based at AOL’s headquarters in New York (9th Street and Broadway). In both cases the salary will be commensurate with experience. AOL has an attractive benefits package.

Seed will also be looking for others over time including people involved with development, design, product management, community development and data analysis. And AOL is hiring lots of other journalists, both full time and as full and part time freelancers. People interested in any of those roles should look at AOL’s corporate job site where all positions are listed (really). And also look at the AOL sites to see the sort of coverage we have. Contact the editors (listed on the sites) for freelance opportunities. (See the links below.)

Please send me a resume, clips and references if you have them. Send this info and any other correspondence related to the jobs to seedjobs@seed.com. That mailbox comes right to me, but using it helps make sure I don’t lose your information amid all the other e-mail I get.

It may be a few weeks before we start to interview candidates. So don’t be concerned if you don’t hear from us for a while.

INFORMATION ON SEED AND AOL
The Seed site: http://www.seed.com/
A list of AOL sites (well most of them): http://www.seed.com/aol-network/
AOL Job listings: http://corp.aol.com/current-jobs