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TransPerfect

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5001 - 10000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

⚖️ Legal

💰 $425M Debt Financing - TransPerfect on 2025-04

Consulting • Marketing • Legal

TransPerfect is the world’s largest provider of language and AI services, offering translation, localization, and specialized AI-data capabilities through its DataForce division. The company operates globally (140+ cities, 200+ languages) and combines linguistic expertise with modern AI-data practices to build culturally aware, secure, and scalable data pipelines used to train, test, evaluate, and localize AI systems. TransPerfect primarily serves enterprise clients and connects distributed contributors with flexible opportunities to participate in AI projects.

📋 Description

• Complete 1 short story of approximately 6,000 words • Submit a brief plot for approval before writing the story • Write the story in an assigned genre based on selected preference • Complete the project within the specified timeframe • Make revisions if required based on feedback • Create high-quality story content to help test and improve Machine Translation technology

🎯 Requirements

• Residency in South Africa • Native-level fluency and excellent writing skills in Afrikaans, including grammar and spelling • Working proficiency in English; communication and guidelines are in English • Degree in Literature or Creative Writing and/or proven experience in writing or content creation • Strong preference for candidates with published books and/or high-quality writing samples in relevant genres • Ability to write in one of the assigned genres: Kids, Thriller/Mystery, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Self-help, Romance, or Memoir/Biography

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote project • Flexible participation from home • Writers retain the right to use their work as they wish after submission