getting specific feedback on interview that i'm not sure what to do with, help!

hey everyone, i was laid off last summer and was previously doing senior responsibilities at a large tech company. i currently have ~6/7 years of experience.

my problem is im getting rejected for the same reason over and over again. i lack the ability to lead product direction / do "strategy" which i'm not even sure what "strategy" is to be honest. some specific feedback ive gotten revolves around "early ambiguous product discovery stages" and "define a product's direction" and "driving work cross functionally". but everything else is usually stellar: great communication, drive, execution, craft, problem solving, systems thinking, navigating complexity, process.

i feel that if i only had more experience defining a product's direction, i'd probably have better luck getting offers. the reason i'm lacking in this area is because i started my career at a startup with low design maturity. i wasn't getting mentorship, then i joined a company where i could get that - however, i soon got sick, and was freelance remotely for several years to recover. that slowed down my career. i then had a couple jobs after that in eng-heavy environments that didnt value design as a strategic partner. i thought that at my last job i could build experience, but i had bad luck and worked with a pm with a dominating personality who discounted all the strategy stuff i was doing (proactively putting together open ended questions in research calls and sending them to her, but she would just ignore all of it and dominate the conversations). so in previous environments, i ended up leaning on pm to drive, whereas i still collaborated. i just didnt drive it. i feel as if i have the ability to do it - i did that at my first job, but the scope i was working with was also smaller and easier to handle, and i had such a kind PM too which made it easy to collaborate with him.

i was laid off at my last job, so now im feeling a bit stuck. how do i climb out of this? i sometimes wonder if i'm not even senior...and there arent that many mid level roles out there right now. i don't know what are the actionable steps i could do to move forward. its already been many months since the lay off and i thought if i spent a few months focusing on doing my portfolio, case studies, id be ready to go this year. but now im burnt out from all that prep work, and im feeling stuck / really insecure about this gaping hole in my experience.