Narrative Designer

CM IMMERSIVE

The role maintains narrative work for the Into The Radius series and contributes to new IPs, including developing setting, lore, story and tone, writing scripts and in-game texts, and building story sequences in Unreal Engine with Game Designers. CM IMMERSIVE is a remote-first video games development studio headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, focused on creating and publishing premium games for virtual reality and PC.

Location: Europe
Employment: Full time
Date added: 2026-10-15
Last checked: 2026-10-17

Overview

CM IMMERSIVE is hiring a Narrative Designer Browse Jobs Art & Animation Audio Business & Operations Design Marketing & Community Production Programming QA & CS Writing Post a Job Back to all jobs See allWritingjobs Narrative Designer CM IMMERSIVE Apply for this Job Apply for this Job URL copied! This position has been closed. No items found. Posted October 15, 2026 Full Time Europe Remote €2300 - 2800 net CM IMMERSIVE (CMI) is a remote-first video games development studio with HQ in Tallinn, Estonia at ~30 contributors. CMI is focused on creating and publishing premium games for virtual reality and PC, currently known for the Into The Radius series, reaching more than one million players worldwide. We are looking for a professional with a long-term interest in games as a medium. They would maintain the narrative work for Into The Radius series and contribute to new IPs. The role implies working with one to three titles at once, at different phases, and a variable, managed load, with content outsourcing available. During pre-production, you will collaborate with Game Directors to develop narrative design goals, structures, synopses. For production, you will implement narrative devices and create content together with Game Designers and the rest of team, for players to engage with. We focus our narrative effort on environmental and production design, player-choice-through-action, an intentionally limited cast of characters, in-game epistolary texts, and simpler event sequences. We are able consider European Union residents, ready to collaborate B2B. The renumeration is at €2300 - 2800 net. The recruitment pipeline includes completing a one-pager narrative design test task at later stages, scoped for 1-3 hours of work. We don't plan to reuse the results in production. Our goal is to understand how you think, and how you express your narrative intention.

What you will do

Get up to speed with Into The Radius as a fictional universe
Maintain consistency of setting, lore, themes, story, tone across titles
Develop the setting, theming, story, lore further, with reasonable care for foundations
Develop narrative as a whole and a sum of parts together with Game Directors and Game Designers
Set requirements and prepare references for production and visual design
Write scripts and in-game texts
Build story sequences in Unreal Engine 5.x with native and custom tools, together with Game Designers
Own narrative documentation and pipelines, so that art, audio and design can interface effectively
Contribute to localization

What we expect from you

You have shipped at least one title and internalized how players interacted with your narrative output
You are capable, comfortable engaging with intense VR experiences at longer sessions
You are ready to work with more than one project at once, switching between VR and PC
You can use the game engine to develop narrative together with Game Designers
You are familiar with immersive first-person games, and games inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
You understand and embrace that narrative is shaped by gameplay, constraints, collaboration, production reality
You can work in a highly autonomous collective

Nice to have

An affinity to existential, surreal, not-happy artwork as a creator
Experience developing for VR
Experience with Unreal Engine
Experience writing for film, television or games
Experience with narrative design and story-building tools

Thank you kindly for your time and consideration! About CM IMMERSIVE CM IMMERSIVE is a video game studio headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, focusing on creating and publishing premium games for VR and PC platforms. CMI is best known for Into the Radius, a series of immersive survival shooters combining realistic gunplay, atmospheric storytelling, and exploration. Featured Game s Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment. Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter. Welcome to the realm of surreal landscapes and deadly anomalies known as Pechorsk Anomaly. Arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper into the mysteries that lie within, either solo or as part of a team. Apply for this Job Apply for this Job URL copied! Click the Apply button to auto-fill the email address into your email program or right-click and "Copy Email Address" to paste on your own. Learn With CM IMMERSIVE No items found. More Jobs at CM IMMERSIVE CM IMMERSIVEis hiring aAssociate Producerto join their team into work fromthetheEuropeAssociate ProducerCM IMMERSIVE | EuropeLearn More Recent Editorial, Writing, & Journalism jobs [Failbetter Games is hiring a Writer & Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)to join their team into work fromthetheAnywhereWriter & Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)Failbetter Games | AnywhereLearn More](/careers/failbetter-games-writer-narrative-designer-senior-mid-level) Karmic Bit is hiring a Experienced Writerto join their team into work fromthetheAnywhereExperienced WriterKarmic Bit | AnywhereLearn More Job Hunting Tips & Tricks [This Resume Landed an Interview at Amazon in <24 HoursHow do you write a resume that stands out from the crowd and gets the attention of hiring managers? Here's an approach that has consistently worked for me.Nathan BosiaPeople PersonRead more](/learn/this-resume-landed-an-interview-at-amazon-in-less-than-24-hours) [Cover Letters, Love ‘em or Leave ‘em?A job posting is an expression of pain. They have specific gaps they’re looking to fill. Your job is to communicate you understand their pain and can alleviate their suffering.Jean LeggettCareer Strategist & Leadership CoachRead more](/learn/cover-letters-love-em-or-leave-em) [Should you customize every one of your job applications?W‍ith more people applying for even fewer jobs, roles are being filled faster than ever. Which makes it that much more important to customize your resumes and cover letters.Nathan BosiaPeople PersonRead more](/learn/how-to-customize-your-resume-and-cover-letter) [A Rejection Letter: Giving Feedback to Every ApplicantWhat's it like reviewing and responding to 118 job applications? A little like this. Plus some tips and tricks to improve your next application from the POV of a hiring manager.Nathan BosiaPeople PersonRead more](/learn/a-rejection-letter-giving-feedback-to-every-applicant) Next Indie games are cool. So are the people that make them. Make cool games. Be cool people. Work With Indies. Thank you for joining! New issues are sent every Wednesday! Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again. *Sign up to receive a weekly digest of new indie career opportunities. WORK WITH INDIES We’ve been lucky to have some incredible jobs working at and partnering with some of the biggest brands in video games. But we’ve never had more fun and been more fulfilled than when we were working with indie game developers. Everyone in games should have that much fun. Our hope is that Work With Indies will connect job seekers with the most rewarding, most inspirational, and most fun jobs they've ever had. NAVIGATION

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CM IMMERSIVE is a video game studio headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, focusing on creating and publishing premium games for VR and PC platforms.

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