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title: 'Legal Counsel - NY at Eon'
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# Legal Counsel - NY at Eon

- **Company:** Eon
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio/jobs/4890216101

## Job description

## About the Role

We are seeking an experienced, business-oriented attorney with 8+ years of experience to support Eon's commercial growth and expanding U.S. operations. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to Sales, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership teams, helping drive complex commercial transactions while balancing legal risk and business objectives.

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic and solutions-oriented lawyer who thrives in a fast-paced technology environment and enjoys partnering closely with business leaders to accelerate growth and close strategic deals.

## What You'll Do

- Serve as the primary legal advisor supporting Eon's U.S. commercial operations.

- Lead the drafting, review, and negotiation of a broad range of commercial agreements, including enterprise customer, partner, reseller, vendor, and SaaS agreements.

- Partner closely with Sales and Revenue leadership to structure, negotiate, and close strategic enterprise transactions.

- Advise business stakeholders on legal and commercial risks, providing practical, business-focused guidance.

- Support strategic partnerships, channel programs, and go-to-market initiatives.

- Develop and improve contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and scalable legal processes.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Security, Product, and Compliance teams to support business objectives and customer requirements.

## What You'll Bring

- J.D. degree and active membership in good standing with the New York State Bar.

- 8+ years of legal experience, including significant commercial contracting and transaction experience.

- Experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house at a SaaS, cloud, cybersecurity, or technology company.

- Strong expertise negotiating enterprise SaaS, technology, and strategic commercial agreements.

- Proven ability to balance legal risk with business objectives and support revenue-generating initiatives.

- Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to operate independently and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

## About Eon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eon provides a cloud-native data infrastructure platform that turns backups, archives, and cloud resources into an AI-ready, analytics-accessible data lake.
- **Entity Type**: Private ($497M total funding; Series D)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (also operates in Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; Mexico City, Mexico; and Italy)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Ofir Ehrlich (CEO, Co-founder), Gonen Stein (President, Co-founder), Ron Kimchi (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Data Infrastructure & Analytics; Cloud Backup; AI Data Readiness
- **Target customers**: Forture 500s and global enterprises with complex cloud infrastructure — B2B, Enterprise focus
- **Mission**: “Make the world’s cloud data faster, safer, and smarter.” Eon is on a mission to turn passive backup storage into active, queryable infrastructure that data engineers and AI teams can use instantly.

## Products & Services
- **Eon Data Protection**: Automated, agentless cloud backup and protection with continuous mapping, classification, and incremental discovery of cloud resources. Reduces storage costs by up to 50% via global deduplication. Includes Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) and log archiving for instant recovery down to a single database row or file. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/)
- **Eon Data Lake Infrastructure**: Converts backups, archives, and cloud resources into a managed, zero-ETL data lake using open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Parquet). Instantly queryable via Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery. Built-in AI enables natural-language search and AI agent connections via MCP and A2A connectors. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/)
- **Unified Storage Format**: Open, analytics-ready data platform that turns cloud data into a zero-ETL data lake for any granularity.
- **Role-Based Access Control & Comprehensive Audit Reporting**: For enterprise compliance and security.

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $497M across 5 rounds (Seed, Series B, C, D)
    - Seed Round (Jan 2024): $20M led by Sequoia Capital
    - Series B (Oct 2024): $77M led by Greenoaks Capital
    - Series C (Nov 2024): $70M led by BOND Capital
    - Series D (Dec 2025): $300M led by Elad Gil
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Notable Investors**: Elad Gil, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, BOND Capital
- **Key Metric**: Revenue is not publicly available (private company); total funding is $497M
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Headcount grew 111.8% YoY (+114 employees) to 131 people as of recent data [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eon-io)
    - Monthly headcount growth of +9.6%
    - Founded by the team behind CloudEndure (acquired by AWS), who built AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Application Migration Service — two native AWS services that support the world’s largest enterprises
    - Over 18 employees formerly from Amazon Web Services (AWS); talent also drawn from Google, Microsoft, Unity, Wix, Cohesity, and Israeli Military Intelligence

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-ever Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) platform** — a new category that Eon practically invented
- **Agentless and read-only IAM role design** — zero attack surface, no hidden fees, no software to deploy
- **Cloud-native global deduplication** — reduces storage costs by up to 50% and improves performance via parallelized reads
- **Zero-ETL data lake** — eliminates the need for brittle ETL pipelines to make backup data useful for AI and analytics; data is automatically converted to open table formats
- **Founding team’s deep AWS expertise** — founded CloudEndure, built two AWS native services; deep credibility with enterprise cloud infrastructure

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Eon platform as the “backup autopilot” for modern cloud infrastructure
- Converting backup data into AI-ready assets via built-in AI agents, natural-language search, and open table formats
- Scaling go-to-market in the U.S. (Active job postings for Sales Directors, Account Executives in Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and New York)
- Building out channels and partner ecosystems (Director of Channels - East/West)
- International expansion: operations already in 5 countries; hiring in Tel Aviv and New York

## Why Work Here
- **Radical Ownership & Flat Structure**: “We’re flat by design. Direct collaboration with the founders and real authority to make decisions that move the company forward.” Skill and impact matter more than hierarchy or titles. [eon.io/careers](https://www.eon.io/careers)
- **High-Growth Environment**: Headcount grew 111% in the last year; the company has raised $497M and is scaling fast
- **Culture of Speed and Experimentation**: “Speed isn’t just how we build—it’s who we are.” “We experiment fearlessly, build fast, and celebrate the wins together.”
- **Excellent Above All**: Holds itself to the highest standards; hires top talent that Fortune 500s trust
- **“Enjoy the Ride”**: Fun is taken seriously — “Happy people build better products.” Support, rewards, and celebration are part of the culture
- **Remote / Hybrid**: Roles advertised include hybrid (Tel Aviv, New York) and remote options (Technical Customer Success for US, Solutions Architect in Tel Aviv) [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio)
- **Engineering Culture**: Founded by CloudEndure/AWS veterans; strong engineering DNA with 52 technical employees; recruits heavily from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and elite tech teams

## Sources
1. [eon.io](https://www.eon.io/) — Product information, platform description, feature highlights
2. [eon.io/careers](https://www.eon.io/careers) — Culture, values, career page
3. [eon.io/about](https://www.eon.io/about) — Founders, story, mission, and news
4. [linkedin.com/company/eon-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eon-io) — Employee count, headcount growth, talent sources, demographics, funding rounds
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eonio) — Active job postings and locations

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