How to start into freelance user research based product strategy?
I got "quiet" fired from the start-up I was working for and the reasons were vague. Reason being the Iran war etc. Basically they put me on an unpaid leave for some months. So I know they are not calling me back.
I took some time to think about what I want to do next. Turns out I don't want to work for start-ups anymore. I've been working for start-ups for over 4 years now. I have been in the roles of a UX consultant and later pivoted to Product roles on request of the stakeholders. So, my CV is all over the place I've done user research, leading to designs on figma. I've done prototyping and in the past year I've made designs and prototypes on ChatGPT and Claude. I have skills in Framer and basically any no-code web builder.
All this under my belt I am sure that I want to work on something exciting that takes me to apply more of my critical thinking skills. I want to start in the freelance market now.
I want to take up small 2-3 week projects for product companies/start-ups/MSME and help them identify their users, any problems they want solved.
Now, I need some guidance to start out as a user research based product strategist. I basically don't have any meaningful connections to get me started.