• Own the MCP Gateway and Registry roadmap end-to-end, defining clear problem statements, success metrics, and operational targets. • Establish and uphold the operational excellence bar for the Gateway, including availability, latency, observability, and incident response standards. • Define and evolve authentication, authorization, and multi-tenant access patterns to ensure secure, scalable AI tool invocation. • Design and operationalize a durable registry governance model, including verification thresholds, lifecycle expectations, versioning standards, and ownership clarity. • Partner with AI platform engineering, security, and agent teams to balance flexibility with enforcement and scale MCP as trusted Tier-0 infrastructure. • Create paved paths and validation mechanisms that reduce onboarding friction while preventing unmanaged tool sprawl. • Drive MCP adoption as the default invocation layer through structured rollouts, enablement, and measurable impact. • Use reliability, adoption, and governance metrics to continuously improve platform performance and prioritize hardening versus expansion.