sawastea, Lucerne, Switzerland · Co-Founder · Equity We're two people testing out an idea: Sawastea, an authentic Thai Iced Tea (Cha Yen). We haven't founded a company yet — right now it's small home-batches and figuring out if there's a real market for it. So far it's one person on marketing & sales, one on ICT & design. What we're missing is someone who genuinely knows food/beverage product development — that's you. What we're looking for: A co-founder to take ownership of product development: bringing real expertise to our recipe, formulation, and eventually the path toward an RTD product. You don't need to know Thai tea specifically — but you should genuinely come from this field, not be learning it alongside us. What you'd work on: - Recipe refinement and eventually scaling from home-batch toward a producible format with a suiting partner - Reformulation questions: e.g. moving from synthetic colorants to natural alternatives without losing color/stability - Shelf-life and food safety basics: pasteurization, preservation, working with a milk-infused tea - Helping us think through what it takes to eventually work with a co-packer - Keeping an eye on Swiss food law relevant to composition and labeling You might be a fit if you have: - A real background in food science, beverage technology, or F&B product development — studies or hands-on industry experience - Genuine comfort with hands-on recipe work: tasting, iterating, adjusting — not just theory - Interest in joining as an co-founder from an early, unproven stage — this is still a test, not a running business yet What we offer: - Co-founder equity and real influence on where this goes - An honest, early-stage project: we've done some groundwork (food law basics, batch records, a first pass at financials) but there's no funding, no company, no guarantees yet - Two people who take this seriously and want a third who can actually judge the product side, which we can't yet. - Start Up experience and passion for entrepreneurship. If this sounds interesting even without a perfect match on paper, reach out and let's talk.