Global vendors hiring AI & remote talent

TELUS Digital (rebranded from TELUS International in 2024) is the customer experience and digital solutions arm of TELUS, the Canadian telecommunications company. It traces its roots to TELUS's 2005–2006 investment in Ambergris Solutions, a Philippines-based BPO, and has grown into a global operation spanning contact center outsourcing, AI data services, digital solutions and trust & safety work, serving over 600 client brands worldwide. Its AI division — TELUS Digital AI, run through the 'AI Community' program — is the part most relevant to remote freelancers: a crowdsourced network the company describes as having over 1 million contributors worldwide who collect, label, translate, and evaluate the data used to train and improve AI models for major technology companies. Roles range from short, no-experience-required data-labeling and ad-relevance-rating tasks up to PhD-level domain expert work in fields like law, medicine, architecture, and the physical sciences. All AI Community work is engaged on a freelance/contractor basis rather than as direct employment, with pay, hours, and project length varying significantly by role. TELUS Digital's traditional (non-AI-Community) careers site also lists conventional employee positions in customer service, trust & safety, and digital delivery roles across the company's 33-country operating footprint.

OneForma is a crowdsourced platform connecting contributors worldwide with data-annotation and AI-training projects — reviewing AI outputs, transcribing and annotating audio, collecting data, translating, and authoring LLM prompts. Contributors join as independent contributors (not employees), get certified through OneForma's own GenAI certification process, and are matched to projects based on their validated skills and language. Pay is calculated per hour or per approved unit of work, with the exact rate varying by project, language, and locale — OneForma does not publish a single company-wide pay rate; rates are shown only after selecting your specific project and locale.

Welocalize was founded in 1997 and is headquartered at 136 Madison Avenue, New York. It has grown into 'Welo Global', a holding company operating five distinct brands: Welocalize (core translation/localization services), Adapt (international digital marketing), Park IP (intellectual property translation for patents and legal filings), Welo Life Sciences (regulated medical/pharmaceutical/clinical translation), and Welo Data (AI training data and annotation services). The company states it operates across 300+ languages, serving 2,000+ clients with 1,500+ corporate employees, built on its proprietary 'Opal' AI/machine-translation platform. For TTA Academy's audience specifically, the freelance, no-degree AI-annotation and data-rating work is run under the Welo Data brand — Welocalize's own general job board (jobs.lever.co/weloglobal, 'Welocalize' department) is dominated by full-time and on-site/hybrid linguist and localization-QA employment roles in specific countries, not open freelance work.